Vigée Le Brun

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 15–May 15, 2016; and at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 10–Sepember 11, 2016.

“Mundus Muliebris”: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, peintre de l’Ancien régime féminin [“Mundus Muliebris”: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Female Painter of the Ancien Regime]

by Marc Fumaroli

Black Deutschland

by Darryl Pinckney

In Other Words

by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Constitutional Personae

by Cass R. Sunstein

Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane

by Patrick McGilligan

Orson Welles: One-Man Band

by Simon Callow

Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News

by A. Brad Schwartz

Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind

by Josh Karp

Chimes at Midnight

a film directed by Orson Welles

I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, 1975–2014

by Eileen Myles

Chelsea Girls

by Eileen Myles

Inferno (A Poet’s Novel)

by Eileen Myles

The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?

by Dale Russakoff

Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph

by Kristina Rizga

Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression

by Charb, with a foreword by Adam Gopnik

Who Is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class

by Emmanuel Todd, translated from the French by Andrew Brown, with maps and diagrams by Philippe Laforgue

Situation de la France [France’s Situation]

by Pierre Manent

Terreur dans l’Hexagone: Genèse du djihad français [Terror in the Hexagon: The Genesis of French Jihadism]

by Gilles Kepel, with Antoine Jardin

Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

by Paul Goldberger

Frank Gehry

an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 13, 2015–March 20, 2016

Napoleon: A Life

by Andrew Roberts

Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny

by Michael Broers

Bonaparte: 1769–1802

by Patrice Gueniffey, translated from the French by Steven Rendall