Must reads on the first weekend of 2013

Our latest book reviews:

• Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother, byEve LaPlante,  review by Dafna Izenberg

• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis, review by Sarah Weinman

• Thirst: Water & Power in the Ancient World, by Steven Mithen, review by Michael Petrou

• The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, by Marcus Rediker, review by Peter Shawn Taylor

• What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art, by Will Gompertz, review by Joanne Latimer

• The Holy Or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’, by David Nasaw, review by Marni Jackson