The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

by David Brion Davis

The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World

by Alison Wolf

Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

catalog by Paul Roberts of a recent exhibition at the British Museum

Herculaneum: Art of a Buried City

by Maria Paola Guidobaldi and Domenico Esposito, with photographs by Luciano Pedicini, translated from the Italian by Ceil Friedman

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

by David Nirenberg

Reflections on Judging

by Richard A. Posner

Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

by Marina Warner

One Thousand and One Nights

a retelling by Hanan al-Shaykh, with a foreword by Mary Gaitskill

Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World

by Nicholas Griffin

The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present

by David Runciman

Prince Igor

an opera by Alexander Borodin, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov

Scotland’s Future: Your Guide to an Independent Scotland

by the Scottish Government

The Road to Independence?: Scotland in the Balance

by Murray Pittock, with a foreword by Alex Salmond