The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

by David Remnick

The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 1–May 23, 2010; the Saint Louis Art Museum, June 20–September 6, 2010; the Dallas Museum of Art, October 3, 2010–January 2, 2011; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 23–April 17,

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November 8, 2008–February 8, 2009; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 2–June 13, 2010.

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff

World Economic Outlook, April 2009: Crisis and Recovery

by the International Monetary Fund

World Economic Outlook, October 2009: Sustaining the Recovery

by the International Monetary Fund

Solar

by Ian McEwan

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

by Diane Ravitch

Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East

by Deborah Amos

Miroslav Tichý

an exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York City, January 29–May 9, 2010

The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon

by Robert Darnton

Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies

by David Albright

Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry

selected and translated from the Russian by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin, and with an introduction by Brian Boyd

Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America

by Philip J. Pauly

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby, Volume 1: Ascent, 1799–1851

By Angus Hawkins

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby, Volume 2: Achievement, 1851–1869

By Angus Hawkins