From The New Yorker, a review of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin. A review of The Adventurer’s Handbook: Life Lessons from History’s Great Explorers by Mick Conefrey. A review of Stealing the Wave: The Epic Struggle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo by Andy Martin. A review of Crow Country: A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature by Mark Cocker. An interview with Ann Patchett, author of Truth & Beauty: A Friendship. A review of Art & Morality. 

He transformed 20th-century sculpture and influenced Picasso, who worked with him for several years. Julio Gonzalez, whose work is being exhibited at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, was an inspirational Cubist. A review of New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman

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