Sunil S. Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2013).
Michael Anteby, Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education (Chicago & London: U. of Chicago Press, 2013) (From the bookjacket: "In an era when many organizations are focused in principles f responsibility, Harvard Business School has log tried to promote better business standards. Anteby's rich account reveals the surprising role of silence and ambiguity in HBS's process of codifying morals and business values. As Anteby describes, at HBS specifics are often left unspoken; for example, teaching notes given to faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that requires significant decision-making on the part of those involved, with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model--which tolerates moral complexity--is perhaps one of the few that can adapt and endure over time.").
Vivek Bald, Bengali Harem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard U. Press, 2013).
Julian Barnes, Levels of Life (New York; Knopf, 2013) (See Sarah Manguso, "Latitudes of Grief," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 9/22/2013).
Roberto Bolano, The Unknown University, translated from the Spanish by Laura Healy (New York: New Directions, Books 2007, 2013).
Joseph J. Ellis, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence (New York: Knopf, 2013).
Jeffrey Hopkins, Maps of the Profound: Jam-yang-shay-ba's Great Exposition of Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Views on the Nature of Realty (Ithaca, NY, & Boulder, Co: Snow Lion Publications 2003).
Leszek Kolakowki, Is God Happy?: Selected Essays (New York: Basic Books, 2013).
Kwasi Kwarteng, Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World (New York: PublicAffairs, 2011).
D. T. Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (New York: Viking, 2012).
John Man, Ninja: 1,000 years of the Shadow Warrior (New York: William Morrow, 2012, 2113).
Ray Monk, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center (New York: Doubleday, 2012).
Mary Nyquist, Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death (Chicago & London: U. of Chicago Press, 2012).
Tom Reiss, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (New York: Crown, 2012).
Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume One: The Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1978, 1998).
Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume Two: The Age Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1978, 1998).
William T. Vollmann, Thee Book of Dolores (Brooklyn, NY: Powerhouse Books, 2013).
