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Nonfiction Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations With the Great Women of Musical Theater Eddie Shapiro
Nonfiction Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity David M. Friedman
Nonfiction The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction Victoria Aarons, Avinoam J. Patt, and Mark Shechner
Nonfiction Unstill Life: A Daughter’s Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction Gabrielle Selz
Visual Arts The Wes Anderson Collection Matt Zoller Seitz; Eric C. Anderson, illus.; Michael Chabon, intro.
Nonfiction Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust — Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour James A. Grymes
Essay How Far Would You Go For Your Passion? Lisa Barr is the author of the award-winning debut novel, Fugitive Colors (Arcade), a suspenseful tale of an artist’s revenge on the “eve” of WWII. Today, she chimes… Lisa Barr March 27, 2014
Nonfiction A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen Liel Leibovitz
Nonfiction Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Boris Kachka