Book Reviews

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Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation

Edited by André Dombrowski, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patty. Rizzoli Electa, 2021. 416 pages. $85.00.

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The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World

Barry Gewen. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. 452 pages. $30.00.

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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Crown Random House, 2020. 239 pages. $27.00.

The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

Ritchie Robertson. Harper, 2021. 984 pages. $45.00.

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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

Sarah Stewart Johnson. Crown, 2020. 267 pages. $28.99.

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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

Jenn Shapland. Tin House, 2020. 288 pages. $22.95.

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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death

Harold Bloom. Yale University Press, 2020. 603 pages. $35.00.

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The Art Museum in Modern Times

Charles Saumarez-Smith. Thames & Hudson Ltd., London and New York, 2021. 271 pages. $39.95.

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Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint

Simonetta Fraquelli and Claire Bernardi, editors. The Barnes Foundation in association with the Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie, Paris and Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2021. 166 pages. $60.00.

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The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

Sara Seager. Crown, 2019. 307 pages. $28.00.

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Horace: Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare

Edited and translated by Stephanie McCarter. University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. 594 pages. $34.95.

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Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

Sarah Parcak. Henry Holt and Co., 2019. 288 pages. $30.00.