Updike

by Adam Begley

The Collected Stories: Collected Early Stories, Collected Later Stories

by John Updike, edited by Christopher Carduff

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

by George Prochnik

The Grand Budapest Hotel

a film directed by Wes Anderson

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer

The Catholic Rubens: Saints and Martyrs

by Willibald Sauerländer, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer

Biology’s Brave New World: The Promise and Perils of the Synbio Revolution

by Laurie Garrett

The Principles for the Oversight of Synthetic Biology

by the Friends of the Earth US, the International Center for Technology Assessment, and the ETC Group

Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

by Walter Kirn

The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China—and How America Can Win

by Geoff Dyer

Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China

by Stephen Roach

China Goes Global: The Partial Power

by David Shambaugh

China Story Yearbook 2013: Civilising China

edited by Geremie R. Barmé and Jeremy Goldkorn

Local Souls

by Allan Gurganus

FDR and the Jews

by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman

FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith

by Rafael Medoff

The Accursed

by Joyce Carol Oates

Carthage

by Joyce Carol Oates

The World According to Dick Cheney

a film directed by R.J. Cutler and Greg Finton

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

by Dick Cheney, with Liz Cheney

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

by Barton Gellman

500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars

by Kurt Eichenwald