Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner

by Franny Moyle

J.M.W. Turner: A Life in Art, Vol. 1: Young Mr Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775–1815

by Eric Shanes

Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead

by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman

Avid Reader

by Robert Gottlieb

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

by Frances Wilson

Time Travel: A History

by James Gleick

Divine Pleasures: Painting from India’s Rajput Courts—The Kronos Collections

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, June 14–September 12, 2016

Poetry and Devotion in Indian Painting: Two Decades of Collecting

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, June 15–December 4, 2016

Here I Am

by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Letters of Samuel Beckett Vol. IV: 1966–1989

edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, and Lois More Overbeck

The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable

by Suzana Herculano-Houzel

The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

by Aileen M. Kelly

19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)

by Eliot Weinberger, with an afterword by Octavio Paz

The Ghosts of Birds

by Eliot Weinberger

The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

by Lawrence Wright

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

by Elaine Showalter

East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity”

by Philippe Sands

The Extermination of the European Jews

by Christian Gerlach

Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison

an exhibition produced by Artangel at Reading Prison, Reading, England, September 4–December 4, 2016

Jean Cocteau: A Life

by Claude Arnaud, translated from the French by Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

by Andrés Reséndez

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873

by Benjamin Madley