Arts Books

• Journalism
  • Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
• Linguistics
  • Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley
  • The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
  • The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
• Music
  • Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization by Stuart Isacoff
  • The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein