NYTimes Holiday Book Review

Six books published by Yale University Press are featured in the annual New York Times Holiday Book Review, out this past weekend.

Francis Fukuyama’s America at the Crossroads was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006 by the Review’s editors.

Reviewer David Hajdu wrote of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction Cartoons, and True Stories, edited by Ivan Brunetti, “Now going under the name graphic fiction, no doubt temporarily, the comics are all grown up, and this anthology represents the most cogent proof since Will Eisner pioneered the graphic novel and Art Spiegelman brought long-form comics to early perfection.”

Joel Smith’s Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, was called a “smartly annotated miscellany of rare familiar sketches and finished tableaus . . . Smith’s informative text sheds more than superficial light, exploring Steinberg’s wide range of themes and techniques.”

Picasso and American Art, by Michael FitzGerald and John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882 edited by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray were highlighted in Holiday Books: Art and America.

Palladio’s Venice by Tracy E. Cooper, was highlighted in Holiday Books: Venice.