Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures

by Pierre Boulez, edited and translated from the French by Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Goldman, and Arnold Whittall

The Book of Anna (Karenina’s Novel)

by Carmen Boullosa, translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle

an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, January 18–August 9, 2020; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, August 29–November 1, 2020; the Birmingham Museum of Art, November 20, 2020–February 7, 2021; the Seattle Art Museum, March 5–May 23, 2021; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., June 26–September 19, 2021

Marie Antoinette’s World: Intrigue, Infidelity, and Adultery in Versailles

by Will Bashor

Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen

by John Hardman

Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants

by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond

by John Washington

The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border

by Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo

The Sound of Our Steps

by Ronit Matalon, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu

The One Facing Us

by Ronit Matalon, translated from the Hebrew by Marsha Weinstein

And the Bride Closed the Door

by Ronit Matalon, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory

by Brian P. Copenhaver

The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

by Anne Boyer

Romance in Marseille

by Claude McKay, edited and with an introduction by Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell

Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug

by Leandra Ruth Zarnow

Bella Bella

a play by Harvey Fierstein, directed by Kimberly Senior, at City Center, New York City, October 22–December 1, 2019

The Art of Political Control in China

by Daniel C. Mattingly

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City

by Fang Fang, translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry

Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

by Megan Rosenbloom

To Be a Man

by Nicole Krauss

Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation

by Andrew Marantz

Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

by Megan Phelps-Roper