Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 8, 2014–January 11, 2015

Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work

by Susan L. Mizruchi

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

Jealousy

by Peter Toohey

Thank You for This Moment: A Story of Love, Power, and Betrayal

by Valérie Trierweiler, translated from the French by Clémence Sebag

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, directed by Graham Vick

Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II

play by Christopher Marlowe, edited and directed by Michael Boyd

Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch

by Nick Davies

Nora Webster

by Colm Tóibín

Frank Gehry

an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, October 8, 2014–January 26, 2015, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 13, 2015–January 3, 2016

Frank Gehry

an exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, October 20, 2014–March 16, 2015

Frank Gehry: The Fondation Louis Vuitton

edited by Frédéric Migayrou

The Fondation Louis Vuitton by Frank Gehry: A Building for the Twenty-First Century

edited by Anne-Line Roccati

Fondation Louis Vuitton/Frank Gehry

by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Wayne A. Rebhorn

Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust

by Götz Aly, translated from the German by Jefferson Chase

The Laughing Monsters

by Denis Johnson

Ardor

by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon

Flora Illustrata: A Celebration of Botanical Masterworks

an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, November 15, 2014–February 22, 2015

Flora Illustrata: Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden

edited by Susan M. Fraser and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers