Prometheus

a film directed by Ridley Scott

Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 15–September 3, 2012

Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

by David E. Sanger

The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power

by James Mann

Enemies: A History of the FBI

by Tim Weiner

Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives

by Robert Draper

Charles Dickens: A Life

by Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens: A Life (Waterstone's Special Edition)

by Claire Tomalin, with an appendix of selected letters by Dickens

Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup

by Christopher de Bellaigue

The Chemistry of Tears

by Peter Carey

DruidMurphy: Conversations on a Homecoming, A Whistle in the Dark, Famine

by Tom Murphy, directed by Garry Hynes

Barack Obama: The Story

by David Maraniss

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

Der frühe Dürer [The Early Dürer]

an exhibition at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 24–September 2, 2012

Renoir. Zwischen Bohème und Bourgeoisie: Die frühen Jahre [Renoir. Between Bohemia and the Bourgeoisie: The Early Years]

an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, April 1–August 12, 2012

American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation

by Michael Kazin

The Art of Robert Frost

by Tim Kendall

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

by Michael J. Sandel

Waiting for Sunrise

by William Boyd

Traveler of the Century

by Andrés Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

Eichmann’s Jews: The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938–1945

by Doron Rabinovici, translated from the German by Nick Somers

The Nazi, The Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road

by G.H. Bennett

We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust

by Ellen Cassedy

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

by John Sutherland

The Dark Defile: Britain’s Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838–1842

by Diana Preston