Wiener Werkstätte, 1903–1932: The Luxury of Beauty

an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, October 26, 2017–January 29, 2018

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

by Daniel Ellsberg

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture

by Laurence Senelick

The Real “Tales of Hoffmann”: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece

by Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye, with a foreword by Plácido Domingo

Les contes d’Hoffmann

an opera by Jacques Offenbach, directed by Bartlett Sher, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, September 26–October 28, 2017

Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror

by Gary Fields

Churchill

a film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky

Darkest Hour

a film directed by Joe Wright

Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 13, 2017–February 12, 2018

The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles

translated from the Greek by Barry B. Powell

The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide

by Azeem Ibrahim, with a foreword by Muhammad Yunus

Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim–Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging

edited by Melissa Crouch

Improvement

by Joan Silber

The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad

by Alexis Peri

Leningrad 1941–1942: Morality in a City Under Siege

by Sergey Yarov, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait

Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster

by Polina Barskova

Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad

edited and with an introduction by Polina Barskova, translated from the Russian by Anand Dibble and seven others

Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke

by Richard Bourke

Keeping On Keeping On

by Alan Bennett

Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at London’s National Theatre

by Nicholas Hytner

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott

Attack of the Fifty Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum and Smart Contracts

by David Gerard

Alex Katz

an exhibition at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York City, November 5–December 22, 2017