New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.
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.
Augustine, Confessions. Trans. Peter Constantine. Foreword by Jack Miles. Liveright, 368pp., $17 paper.
Augustine, Confessions. Trans. Sarah Ruden. Modern Library, 528pp., $16 paper.
Volker Braun, Rubble Flora, trans. David Constantine and Karen Leeder. Seagull Books, 144pp., $12.50 paper.
Eric Eidelstein, Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. 33 1/3 Series. Continuum, 144pp., $15 paper.
Daphne Carr, Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine. 33 1/3 Series. Continuum, 192pp., $15 paper.
Helen Smith, An Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448pp., $35 cloth.
Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, Harvard University Press, 374pp., $30 cloth.
David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.
Margaret Macmillan, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2002.