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de Kooning: An American MasterMark Stevens, Annalyn Swan200630 pts3 wins3 listsKnopfBiographyArt, Music & Performance+2
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as HistoryNorman Mailer196820 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryArt, Music & Performance+1
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy TalesBruno Bettelheim197620 pts2 wins2 listsThames & HudsonScienceArt, Music & Performance+1
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black PerformanceHanif Abdurraqib202220 pts1 wins4 listsRandom HouseArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex Ross200720 pts1 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryArt, Music & Performance+2
Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th CenturyJennifer Homans202220 pts1 wins5 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksBiographyArt, Music & Performance+1
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of SailW. Jeffrey Bolster201218 pts3 wins3 listsHarvard University PressNature & EnvironmentArt, Music & Performance+3
ZeitounDave Eggers200918 pts3 wins3 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+1
Ordinary NotesChristina Sharpe202316 pts1 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+1
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsMarina Warner201214 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)Meyer Schapiro197814 pts1 wins2 listsGeorge BrazillerArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+2
Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast AsiaCarolyn Woods Eisenberg202410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryClimate, Weather & Disaster+3
GirlhoodMelissa Febos202110 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+2
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and CareAnne Boyer201910 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+1
Feel Free: EssaysZadie Smith201810 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin BooksSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+2
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan GreenspanSebastian Mallaby201610 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed MessagesCarina Chocano201610 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintGender & SexualityArt, Music & Performance+1
The ArgonautsMaggie Nelson201510 pts1 wins1 listsGraywolf PressMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+1
Distant ReadingFranco Moretti201310 pts1 wins1 listsVerso BooksArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Nikolaus Pevsner: The LifeSusie Harries201110 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusBiographyReconstruction+3
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and ReviewsGeoff Dyer201110 pts1 wins1 listsGraywolf PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the WestClare Cavanagh200910 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressPolitics & GovernmentArt, Music & Performance+1
Notes from No Man's Land: American EssaysEula Biss200910 pts1 wins1 listsGraywolf PressRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+1
Children's Literature: A Readers' History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry PotterSeth Lerer200810 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French ObsessionMargaret McGowan200810 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères and Co.William D. Cohan200710 pts1 wins1 listsAnchorBusiness & EconomicsEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Everything That Rises: A Book of ConvergencesLawrence Weschler200610 pts1 wins1 listsMcSweeney'sArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of TinWilliam Logan200510 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop PlanetPatrick Neate200310 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Tests of TimeWilliam H. Gass200210 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Quarrel & QuandaryCynthia Ozick200010 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksArts & CriticismMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
SidewalkMitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter (photographer)199910 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+1
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000Martin Amis199810 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth CenturyJohn Brewer199710 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995David E. Kyvig199610 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity Press of KansasHistoryConstitutional History+3
Finding a FormWilliam H. Gass199610 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American CultureGerald Early199510 pts1 wins1 listsEccoArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Opera in America: A Cultural HistoryJohn Dizikes199310 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
The Land Where the Blues BeganAlan Lomax199310 pts1 wins1 listsPantheonArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical PresentArthur C. Danto199110 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+2
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as AuthorClifford Geertz198810 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+1
Dance WritingsEdwin Denby198610 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity Press of FloridaArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Less Than One: Selected EssaysJoseph Brodsky198610 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
The Blind WatchmakerRichard Dawkins198610 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonScienceIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Habitations of the Word: EssaysWilliam H. Gass198510 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on PoetryRobert Hass198410 pts1 wins1 listsEccoArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Hugging the Shore: Essays and CriticismJohn Updike198310 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PutnamArts & CriticismMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
Lost in the CosmosWalker Percy198310 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+1
The Second American Revolution and Other EssaysGore Vidal198210 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HousePolitics & GovernmentIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Without Fear or FavorHarrison Salisbury198110 pts1 wins1 listsBallantine BooksJournalism & ReportageArt, Music & Performance+1
On PhotographySusan Sontag197710 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Why Survive?: Being Old in AmericaRobert N. Butler197510 pts1 wins1 listsHarperSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+1
A Virgil Thomson ReaderVirgil Thomson196610 pts1 wins1 listsPlumeArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
With Malice Toward SomeMargaret Halsey193810 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryArt, Music & Performance+1
Making WavesMario Vargas Llosa199710 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–presentTim Brooks, Earle Marsh198010 pts1 wins1 listsBallantine BooksArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+2
The Essential Ellen WillisEllen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz201410 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian MedicineLindsey Fitzharris201710 pts1 wins3 listsAllen LaneMedicine & Public HealthEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of PiracyStephen Witt201510 pts0 wins3 listsVikingBusiness & EconomicsArt, Music & Performance+3
Poetry and the Fate of the SensesSusan Stewart20028 pts2 wins2 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the WorldWilliam Dalrymple20248 pts1 wins2 listsBloomsburyHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
ColumbineDave Cullen20098 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeArt, Music & Performance+2
Truth & Beauty: A FriendshipAnn Patchett20048 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+1
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called QuestHanif Abdurraqib20198 pts0 wins2 listsUniversity of Texas PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Michelangelo & the Popes CeilingRoss King20038 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HouseArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty EssaysGuy Davenport19818 pts0 wins2 listsDavid R. GodineArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the WarsPaul Fussell19808 pts0 wins2 listsOxford University PressTravel & PlaceIntellectual History & Ideas+3
Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875Barbara Novak19808 pts0 wins2 listsOxford University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth CenturyFrances FitzGerald19798 pts0 wins2 listsVintage BooksHistoryMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+3
Kicked a Building Lately?Ada Louise Huxtable19768 pts0 wins2 listsQuadrangle/The New York Times Book Co.Arts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to MozartMitchell Cohen20176 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Anthony Blunt: His LivesMiranda Carter20016 pts1 wins2 listsPicadorBiographyClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Baltimore's Mansion: A MemoirWayne Johnston19996 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+3
The Migrant Rain Falls in ReverseVinh Nguyen20256 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+3
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother TongueYoko Tawada20256 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American SoulJames McBride20166 pts0 wins2 listsSpiegel & GrauBiographyBlack History & Culture+3
Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances across the Indigenous AmericasLilian Mengesha20254 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Gertrude Stein: An AfterlifeFrancesca Wade20254 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerGender & SexualityLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin AmericaInés Katzenstein, María Del Carmen Carríon,, Madeline Murphy Turner20254 pts1 wins1 listsThe Museum of Modern ArtArts & CriticismEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I DreamBeverly Adams, Christophe Cherix20254 pts1 wins1 listsThe Museum of Modern ArtArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United StatesMatthew D. Morrison20244 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It ImpliesDalila Scruggs20244 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismBlack History & Culture+3
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's MessiahCharles King20244 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of BuckinghamLucy Hughes-Hallett20244 pts1 wins1 listsHarperBiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate FuturesAyana Elizabeth Johnson20244 pts1 wins1 listsOne WorldNature & EnvironmentLgbtq History & Life+3
Data Science for the GeosciencesLijing Wang, David Zhen Yin,, Jef Caers20234 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to AgrippaAnthony Grafton20234 pts1 wins1 listsBelknap PressHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-AndalusEric Calderwood20234 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the HolocaustAri Joskowicz20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern WorldNoémie Ndiaye, Lia Markey20234 pts1 wins1 listsACMRS PressRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+3
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented RhythmDan Charnas20224 pts1 wins1 listsSwift PressBiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of HumilityHenrike Christiane Lange20224 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressArts & CriticismEducation & Universities+3
Untangling Blackness in Greek AntiquitySarah F. Derbew20224 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+3
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist SoundDaphne A. Brooks20214 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressArts & CriticismBlack History & Culture+3
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and LiteratureFarah Jasmine Griffin20214 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonArts & CriticismBlack History & Culture+3
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and BrahmsKira L. Thurman20214 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern BolognaBabette Bohn20214 pts1 wins1 listsPenn State University PressArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
Goya: A Portrait of the ArtistJanis A. Tomlinson20204 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
Had I Known: Collected EssaysBarbara Ehrenreich20204 pts1 wins1 listsTwelveSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
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All awards · Topic: Art, Music & Performance · Sorted by score · 408 books · filtered