Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag

by Sigrid Nunez

The Book of Mormon

a musical by Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone, directed by Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw

Manet: Inventeur du Moderne [Manet: The Man Who Invented Modernity]

an exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, April 5–July 3, 2011

The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

by Irving Kirsch

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

by Robert Whitaker

Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry—A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis

by Daniel Carlat

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)

by American Psychiatric Association

Open City

by Teju Cole

Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present

by Jeff Madrick

The Tree of Life

a film directed by Terrence Malick

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

by Amanda Foreman

The Union War

by Gary W. Gallagher

1861: The Civil War Awakening

by Adam Goodheart

America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation

by David Goldfield

God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War

by George C. Rable

Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science

by Lawrence M. Krauss

Feynman

by Jim Ottaviani, with art by Leland Myrick and coloring by Hilary Sycamore

Seven Years

by Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

On a Day Like This

by Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

Unformed Landscape

by Peter Stamm, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

Konrad Witz

an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, March 6–July 3, 2011

The Free World

by David Bezmozgis

Encounter

by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher