A Widow's Story: A Memoir

by Joyce Carol Oates

All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov

No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

by Carolyn Burke

Townie: A Memoir

by Andre Dubus III

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

by Simon Winchester

Witches on the Road Tonight

by Sheri Holman

L'Antiquité rêvée: innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle

an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, December 2, 2010–February 14, 2011, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 20–May 30, 2011.

The Empty Family

by Colm Tóibín

Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits

edited by Bjørn Lomborg

Cool It

a film directed by Ondi Timoner

Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

by Mark Hertsgaard

To a Mountain in Tibet

by Colin Thubron

The Last Pagans of Rome

by Alan Cameron

Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion

by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel

Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam

by Fred M. Donner

Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East

by Bernard Lewis