Books of Note

New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.

Kendra Greene, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland’s Most Unusual Museums. 222pp., 37 drawings. Penguin Books, $22 cloth.

El Greco: Ambition and Defiance, edited by Rebecca J. Long, with essays by Keith Christiansen, Richard L. Kagan, Guillaume Kientz, Rebecca J. Long, Felipe Pereda, Jose Riello, and Leticia Ruiz Gomez, and contributions by Jena K. Carvana. Distributed by Yale University Press, 200pp., 148 color ills., $50 cloth.

Martin Kemp, Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond. Thames and Hudson, 288pp.,  $35 cloth.

Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci. Simon and Schuster, 624pp., $22 paper.

Mark Evan Bonds, Beethoven: Variations on a Life. Oxford University Press, 160pp., 10 ills., $19 cloth.

Joseph McBride, How Did Lubitsch Do It? Columbia University Press, 561pp., $22 paper.

Jung Young Moon, Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River. Trans. Yewon Jung. Deep Vellum Publishing, 168pp., $15 paper.

Anthony Peattie, The Private Life of Lord Byron. Unbound, xxi + 586 pp., £35 cloth.

Pascal Bruckner, An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt, trans. Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal. Polity Press, 204pp., $20 cloth.

José Manuel Matilla and Manuela Mena, Goya Drawings. Thames and Hudson, 360pp., 250 ills., $35 cloth.

Monique A. Bedasse, Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization. University of North Carolina Press, 270pp.

Ennis B. Edmonds, Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 144pp.

Dean MacNeil, The Bible and Bob Marley: Half the Story Has Never Been Told. Cascade Books, 166pp.

Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, Rastafari—The New Creation. Gold Medal Edition. Jamaican Media Productions Ltd., 136pp.

Hélène Lee, The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism. Chicago Review Press, 320pp.

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