David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Macmillan, 704pp., $35 cloth.

Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum, Reading Ruth: Birth, Redemption, and the Way of Israel. Paul Dry Books, 125pp., $17 paper.

T. J. Clark, If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present. Thames & Hudson, 240pp., $40.

Steven Grosby, Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics: The Third Culture. Oxford University Press, 208pp., $85 cloth.

Richard Verdi, Poussin as a Painter: From Classicism to Abstraction. Reaktion Books, 352 pp., 223 color, 18 b/w illustrations, $50 cloth.

Sheila McTighe, Representing from Life in Seventeenth-century Italy. Amsterdam University Press, 256pp., $144 cloth.

Andrew R. Casper, An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy. Penn State University Press, 216 pp., 5 color, 43 b&w illustrations, $50 cloth.

Turner’s Modern World, edited by David Blayney Brown and Amy Concannon and Sam Smiles. Rizzoli Electa, 240pp., $55 cloth.

Cynthia Haven, Czesław Miłosz: A California Life. Heyday Books, 256pp., $26 cloth.

Ross Douthat, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery. Convergent Books, 224pp., $26 cloth.

Daniel Oppenheimer, Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art. University of Texas Press, 152pp., $25 cloth.

Eric Nelson, The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God. Harvard University Press, 218 pp., $31 cloth.

Boxes: A Field Guide, edited by Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, and Maria Rentetzi. Mattering Press, 628pp., 143 color ills. £50 deluxe hardcover, £35 paperback, free online (web, PDF, epub and Kindle). 

 The Edinburgh History of Reading: Common Readers, edited by Jonathan Rose. Edinburgh University Press, 384pp., $125 cloth, $40 ebook. 

 Umberto Eco, On the Shoulders of Giants. trans. Alastair McEwen. Harvard University Press, 336pp., $28 cloth.