Must reads on the first weekend of 2013
Our latest book reviews, from modern art to Louisa May Alcott’s mom, plus the week’s bestsellers
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
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