Sontag: Her Life and Work

by Benjamin Moser

Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law

by James B. Stewart

Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump’s War on the FBI

by Josh Campbell

Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy

by Mike German

Wozzeck

an opera by Alban Berg, in a production by William Kentridge, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, December 27, 2019–January 22, 2020

The Cheffe: A Cook’s Novel

by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion—and the Future of Clothes

by Dana Thomas

Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish

by Charles J. Halperin

Palestine as Metaphor

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

In the Presence of Absence

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks

Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982

by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from the Arabic and with an introduction by Ibrahim Muhawi and with a foreword by Sinan Antoon

Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation

by Khaled Mattawa

Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 25, 2019–March 1, 2020

First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War But Lost the Peace

by Peter Martell

A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World’s Newest State

by Zach Vertin

The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

by Mark Peterson