Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

by Orlando Figes

The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents

by Linda Killian

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

a video game by GSC Game World

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

a video game by GSC Game World

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

a video game by GSC Game World

Lucian Freud Drawings

an exhibition at Blain/Southern, London, February 17–April 5, 2012, and Acquavella Galleries, New York City, May 1–June 9, 2012

The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

by Elisabeth Badinter

Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species

by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman

Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood

by Anne Enright

The Social Conquest of Earth

by Edward O. Wilson

Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters

by Gordon M. Shepherd

Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain

by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman

Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s: Dark Passage, Nightfall, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, Street of No Return

by David Goodis, edited by Robert Polito

Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 23–September 3, 2012; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 14, 2012–January 13, 2013; Tate Modern, London,

Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune

an exhibition at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, February 1–May 20, 2012

Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform

by Paul Starr

Inside National Health Reform

by John E. McDonough

Fighting for Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States

by Richard Kirsch

Strindberg: A Life

by Sue Prideaux

Wielki Terror: operacja polska 1937–1938 [The Great Terror: The Polish Operation, 1937–1938]

edited by Jerzy Bednarek and others

Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941–1944 [German Occupation Policies in Lithuania, 1941–1944]

by Christoph Dieckmann

Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944

by Anna Reid

The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays

by Vasily Grossman, edited by Robert Chandler, translated from the Russian by Elizabeth Chandler, Robert Chandler, and Olga Mukovnikova

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century

by Howard Gardner

The Abolitionist Imagination

by Andrew Delbanco, with commentaries by John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Darryl Pinckney, and Wilfred M. McClay

Mao’s Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China

edited by Sebastian Heilmann and Elizabeth J. Perry

1812: The Navy’s War

by George C. Daughan

James Madison

by Richard Brookhiser

James Madison: Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation

by Jeff Broadwater

Mr. and Mrs. Madison’s War: America’s First Couple and the Second War of Independence

by Hugh Howard