In Review: December 31, 2007–January 6, 2008

The San Francisco Chronicle:
• The Painter of Battles, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers Peden, trans. (Random House)

Portland Oregonian:
• The Kept Man, Jami Attenberg (Riverhead)

The Boston Globe:
• The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century, Jonathan Miles (Grove/Atlantic Press)  

San Antonio Current:
• Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture, Michael Kammen (Knopf) via Bookforum.com

The New York Sun:
• Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel, Ruth Bernard Yeazell (Princeton University Press) via Bookforum.com

CAA Reviews:*
• Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych, John Oliver Hand and Ron Spronk, eds. (Harvard University Art Museums & Yale University Press)
• Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art, Jean A. Givens (Cambridge University Press)

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