Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

by Rüdiger Safranski, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

by Rosemary Ashton

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us

by Richard O. Prum

The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom

by Thomas G. West

American Greatness: How Conservatism Inc. Missed the 2016 Election and What the D.C. Establishment Needs to Learn

by Chris Buskirk and Seth Leibsohn

Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump

by Laura Ingraham

How the Right Lost Its Mind

by Charles J. Sykes

The Spirit of Liberty: At Home, In the World

by Thomas O. Melia and Peter Wehner

Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

by Mary Shelley, edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert

The New Annotated Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley, edited and with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

by Sujatha Gidla

The Exterminating Angel

an opera by Thomas Adès, with a libretto by Tom Cairns and Thomas Adès based on a screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza, directed by Tom Cairns

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

by Mike Wallace

Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party

an exhibition at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., October 7, 2017–January 7, 2018

Renoir: An Intimate Biography

by Barbara Ehrlich White

Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left

by Gareth Dale

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home

by Mark Mazower

The Cambridge Companion to Seneca

edited by Shadi Bartsch and Alessandro Schiesaro

Seneca: The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1

edited by Shadi Bartsch; translated from the Latin by Shadi Bartsch, Susanna Braund, Alex Dressler, and Elaine Fantham

Seneca: The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2

edited by Shadi Bartsch; translated from the Latin by Shadi Bartsch, Susanna Braund, and David Konstan

Forest Dark

by Nicole Krauss

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

by William Taubman

Before Pictures

by Douglas Crimp

Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

by Karl Sigmund

Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical

by Jacqueline Jones

Thalia: A Texas Trilogy

by Larry McMurtry

Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz

by Fred Hersch

The Ballad of Fred Hersch

a documentary film directed by Charlotte Lagarde and Carrie Lozano

Open Book

an album by Fred Hersch

Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back

by Gretchen Carlson

David Hockney

an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, February 9–May 29, 2017; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, June 19–October 23, 2017; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 20, 2017–February 25, 2018

A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen

by David Hockney and Martin Gayford