Books of Note

New and noteworthy books in the arts and humanities.

Donald Robertson, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. St. Martin’s Press, 304pp., $28 cloth.

Tyler Kepner, K: A History of Baseball in Nine PitchesDoubleday, 320pp., $29 cloth.

Anthony Kaldellis, Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium. Belknap Press, 392pp., $45 cloth.

Douglas Brinkley, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race. Harper Academic, 576pp., $35 cloth.

Robert L. O’Connell, Revolutionary: George Washington at War. Random House, 400pp., $32 cloth.

Steven Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 384pp., $28 cloth.

Harold Bloom, Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind. Simon & Schuster, 160pp., $24 cloth.

Marion Turner, Chaucer: A European Life. Princeton University Press, 624pp., $40 cloth.

David Constantine, trans., Friedrich Hölderlin: Selected Poetry. Bloodaxe Books, 416pp., £15 paper.

Laura Owens. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 10th, 2017 to February 4th, 2018; Dallas Museum of Art, March 25th to July 29th, 2018; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 11th, 2018 to March 25th, 2019.

Exhibition organized at the Whitney Museum of American Art by Scott Rothkopf, and overseen in Dallas by Anna Katherine Brodbeck and in Los Angeles by Bennett Simpson with Rebecca Matalon. Catalogue distributed by Yale University Press, 664pp., $45 paper.

Edward Juler, Grown But Not Made: British Modernist Sculpture and the New Biology. Manchester University Press, 256pp., 97 color ills., $40 paper.

Camille Paglia, Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education. Pantheon, 736pp., $40 cloth.

Matthew Rampley, The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience. Penn State University Press, 200pp., $35 cloth.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds, edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert. MIT Press, 320pp., $20 paper.

Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought. Princeton University Press, 336pp., $30 cloth.

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