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Capturing Character

Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment

Catalog of the exhibition by Anne L. Poulet

Ein Versuch über die Gesichter Houdons

by Willibald Sauerländer


Among the Savages

The Golovlyov Family

by Shchedrin, translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington, with an introduction by James Wood

Sketches of Provincial Life

by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with notes by Frederic Aston

The History of a Town

by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and edited by Susan Brownsberger

The Pompadours: A Satire on the Art of Government

by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with an introduction by David Magarshack


The Worst of the Terror

Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948–1953

by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov


The Wonder of Irishness

Shroud

by John Banville


One Nation Under a Groove

Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music

by Arthur Kempton


Beethoven Beyond Classicism

Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination

by Maynard Solomon

Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History

by Esteban Buch, translated from the French by Richard Miller


God and the Critic

The Book Against God

by James Wood

The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief

by James Wood


TR and the Road Not Taken

Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life

by Kathleen Dalton


God’s Houses Part II

Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation

by Terryl N. Kinder

America's Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community

by Marilyn J. Chiat

Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States

by Peter W. Williams

Architecture for the Gods

by Michael J. Crosbie

Sacred Architecture

by Caroline Humphrey and Piers Vitebsky

Re-Pitching the Tent: Reordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission

by Richard Giles

Building from Belief: Advance, Retreat, and Compromise in the Remaking of Catholic Church Architecture

by Michael E. DeSanctis

Ugly as Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Spaces—and How We Can Change Them Back Again

by Michael S. Rose

When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America

by Jeanne Halgren Kilde

The New Religious Image of Urban America: The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center

by Ira G. Zepp Jr

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