Coriolanus

a film directed by Ralph Fiennes

The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism

by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson

The Tea Party: Three Principles

by Elizabeth Price Foley

Tea Party Patriots: The Second American Revolution

by Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

an exhibition at the Bode-Museum Berlin, August 25–November 20, 2011, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, December 21, 2011–March 18, 2012

The End of Country

by Seamus McGraw

Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale

by Tom Wilber

Gasland

a documentary film by Josh Fox

The Map and the Territory

by Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Gavin Bowd

Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

by Pasi Sahlberg, with a foreword by Andy Hargreaves

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

by Michael Holroyd

Green’s Dictionary of Slang

by Jonathon Green

Downton Abbey

a television series created by Julian Fellowes

Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid’s Memoir That Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey

by Margaret Powell

Ambrose and John Chrysostom: Clerics between Desert and Empire

by J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz

Ambrose of Milan: Political Letters and Speeches

translated from the Latin with an introduction and notes by J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz, with the assistance of Carole Hill

Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism

by Garry Wills

Augustine’s Confessions: A Biography

by Garry Wills

Once Out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body

by Andrea Nightingale

Warfare in Independent Africa

by William Reno

Lost Memory of Skin

by Russell Banks

Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain

by Dwight Macdonald, edited by John Summers, with an introduction by Louis Menand