Roma

a film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present, and Future of the United States

by Victor Bulmer-Thomas

Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition

by David C. Hendrickson

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, February 20–May 22, 2017; the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, June 17–September 17, 2017; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 22, 2017–January 21, 2018

Arturo’s Island

by Elsa Morante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Captain James Cook: The Journals

selected and edited by Philip Edwards

James Cook: The Voyages

by William Frame with Laura Walker

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

by Zeynep Tufekci

How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t

by Leslie R. Crutchfield

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

by Robert Irwin

The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor

by Lone Frank

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

edited by Sahm Venter, with a foreword by Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela

The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

by Sarah Weinman

Rust & Stardust

by T. Greenwood

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker