Telegraph Avenue

by Michael Chabon

A Hologram for the King

by Dave Eggers

Framed: America’s Fifty-One Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance

by Sanford Levinson

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

by Pauline Kael, edited by Sanford Schwartz

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark

by Brian Kellow

When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade

by Dave Kehr

From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia

by Pankaj Mishra

The International Human Rights Movement: A History

by Aryeh Neier

Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities

Catalog of a recent exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, edited by Ludovica Sebregondi and Tim Parks

Who Stole the American Dream?

by Hedrick Smith

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD

by Peter Brown

Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

by Richard A. Muller

Report on Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails

by the Review Panel on Prison Rape, edited by G.J. Mazza

Sexual Victimization Reported by Former State Prisoners, 2008

by Allen J. Beck and Candace Johnson

National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape

Department of Justice, June 2012, 128 pp., available at

The Second World War

by Antony Beevor

Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

by Geoffrey Roberts