Louie

a television series created by Louis C.K.

2017

a stand-up comedy special created by Louis C.K. for Netflix

Horace and Pete

a Web series created by Louis C.K.

Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry

an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York City, May 5–September 24, 2017; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 21, 2017–January 28, 2018

Risk

a documentary film directed by Laura Poitras

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

by Arundhati Roy

The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City

edited by Andrea Carandini with Paolo Carafa, translated from the Italian by Andrew Campbell Halavais

The End of Eddy

by Édouard Louis, translated from the French by Michael Lucey

Camille Pissarro: Le premier des impressionnistes

an exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, February 23–July 16, 2017

Pissarro à Éragny: La nature retrouvée

an exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, March 16–July 9, 2017

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1849

by Sidney Blumenthal

Wrestling with His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1849–1856

by Sidney Blumenthal

The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have

by Bonnie Rochman

DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes

by Steven J. Heine

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg

Modern Gods

by Nick Laird

When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn’s Cold War Triumph and Its Aftermath

by Stuart Isacoff

Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story—How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

by Nigel Cliff

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

by David Bellos

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

by Elisabeth Rosenthal

Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks

by Geoffrey C. Kabat