Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State

by Glenn Greenwald

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man

by Luke Harding

United States of Secrets

a Frontline documentary (part one produced and directed by Michael Kirk; part two produced by Martin Smith)

The NSA Report: Liberty and Security in a Changing World

by the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: Richard A. Clarke, Michael J. Morell, Geoffrey R. Stone, Cass R. Sunstein, and Peter Swire

Bourbon Street: A History

by Richard Campanella

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

by Sheri Fink

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

by Brad Stone

Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

by Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

by Michael Lewis

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée

Inside the Zhivago Storm: The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak’s Masterpiece

by Paolo Mancosu

Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

by Jeanne E. Abrams

Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent

by Gabrielle Walker

What We Know: The Reality, Risks and Response to Climate Change

a report by the Climate Science Panel of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

a report by the US Global Change Research Program

Essays and Reviews, 1959–2002

by Bernard Williams, with a foreword by Michael Wood

Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order

by Richard N. Haass

Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy

by Barry R. Posen

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Reforming Taxation to Promote Growth and Equity

a white paper by Joseph Stiglitz

Voices from Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage

by Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong, edited and translated from the Chinese by Violet S. Law, and with an introduction by Robert Barnett

Tibet: An Unfinished Story

by Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper

A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957

by Melvyn C. Goldstein

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

by Jonathan Israel

Every Day Is for the Thief

by Teju Cole

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

by Mary Beard

The Infatuations

by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

In the Night of Time

by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

by Michael C.C. Adams

The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for Pluralism

by Marwan Muasher

The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising

by Gilbert Achcar, translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian