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Jerusalem Blues

City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem

by Meron Benvenisti


God’s Choice

Gladstone: A Biography

by Roy Jenkins


Living Ghosts

Lament for the Makers

by W.S. Merwin

The Vixen

by W.S. Merwin

Flight Among the Tombs

by Anthony Hecht

The Bounty

by Derek Walcott


Confidence Man

Duchamp: A Biography

by Calvin Tomkins

The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture

by Jerrold Seigel

The Popular Culture of Modern Art: Picasso, Duchamp, and Avant-Gardism

by Jeffrey Weiss

The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp

edited by Thierry de Duve

New York Dada 1915-23

by Francis M. Naumann

Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York

edited by Francis M. Naumann, with Beth Venn. Catalog of the Whitney Museum exhibition, which closed on February 23.

Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Esthetics

by Heather Busch and Burton Silver

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Russia: The New Oligarchy

Kremlin Capitalism: The Privatization of the Russian Economy

by Joseph R. Blasi and Maya Kroumova and Douglas Kruse, foreword by Andrei Shleifer


The Great Forgotten Modernist

Braque: The Late Works 6, 1997, and the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, April 25-August 31, 1997

An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23-April

Braque: The Late Works

by John Golding and Sophie Bowness and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine


Troubles I’ve Seen

The Cattle Killing

by John Edgar Wideman


With Malice Toward Many

Human Rights Watch World Report 1997: Events of 1996

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