Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed

a musical written and directed by George C. Wolfe, with songs by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, at the Music Box Theatre, New York City, opened on April 28, 2016

Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, April 18–July 17, 2016

The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

by Marc Lynch

ISIS: A History

by Fawaz A. Gerges

They May Not Mean To, But They Do

by Cathleen Schine

Consequence: A Memoir

by Eric Fair

The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan

by J. Kael Weston

Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait

by Biancamaria Fontana

Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz

edited by Craig Morgan Teicher and with an introduction by John Ashbery

Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide

by Charles Foster

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

by Jonathan Balcombe

Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law

by David Cole

Looking at Pictures

by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky, with additional translations by Lydia Davis and Christopher Middleton

Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux

three operas by Gaetano Donizetti, directed by David McVicar, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 2015–2016 season

“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf

Alexander Yakovlev: The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism

by Richard Pipes

Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry

by Paul Celan, translated from the German and with commentary by Pierre Joris

Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City

by Leslie Day, with illustrations by Trudy Smoke, photographs by Beth Bergman, and a foreword by Don Riepe

Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind

by George Makari

The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

by A.C. Grayling

The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939–1945

by Max Hastings

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

by Thomas W. Laqueur

Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide

by Marzio Barbagli, translated from the Italian by Lucinda Byatt

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

by Ronald Blythe, with an introduction by Matt Weiland

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

by Roger Crowley

The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon

edited by Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and K.J.P. Lowe

Kongo: Power and Majesty

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, September 18, 2015–January 3, 2016