I just finished Judith Butler's new(est) book, Precarious Life, this morning.  It's a powerful meditation on, among other things, the racialization of mourning and "grievability," the Foucauldian implications of Rumsfeld and Ashcroft's "Infinite Detention" of "enemy combatants," The anti-Semitism of the position of those such as Lawrence Summers (and David White) that criticism of the israeli state and of zionism as a racialized ideological formation is tantamount to Jew-hatred, and on the antifeminist implications of the belated "feminist" justifications for the invasion of Afghanistan.  It's powerful, well-written, and the most accessible Butler book i've ever read, so i'm heavily recommending it to my five or so readers, some of whom i think will be especially drawn to Butler's attempts to locate a Jewish ethics of non-violence.  You can get a copy here.