Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

by Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

by D.T. Max

Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People

by Harry Ostrer

The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology

by Nadia Abu El-Haj

George Bellows

an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 10–October 8, 2012; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 14, 2012–February 18, 2013; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 16–June 9, 2013

Red Sorghum

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

The Garlic Ballads

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

Big Breasts and Wide Hips

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

by Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

The Richard Burton Diaries

edited by Chris Williams

Sweet Tooth

by Ian McEwan

The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia

by Gregory D. Johnsen

High-Value Target: Countering Al Qaeda in Yemen

by Edmund J. Hull

The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork

by Ben Kafka

Camille Corot: Natur und Traum [Camille Corot: Nature and Dream]

an exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 29, 2012–January 6, 2013

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt

Dignity: Its History and Meaning

by Michael Rosen

The Tempest

an opera by Thomas Adès, with a libretto by Meredith Oakes, directed by Robert Lepage

Freud’s Sister

by Goce Smilevski, translated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer

Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

by Norman Davies

A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States

by Geoffrey C. Ward