James's best books of 2006

James writes:

The Triumph of Modernism: The Art World, 1985-2005 by Hilton Kramer (quoted here).

America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It by Mark Steyn (reviewed here.)

Honor: A History by James Bowman

Londonistan by Melanie Phillips

Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy by Theodore Dalrymple

Betrayal: France, Arabs, and the Jews by David Pryce-Jones

The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry & Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings by Martin Gardner (reviewed here).

Landscape With Moving Figures: A Decade on Dance by Laura Jacobs.

Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History
by Stephen Christopher Quinn (reviewed here).

Symbolism by Rodolphe Rapetti (reviewed here, quoted here).

The latest Jacob Collins catalogue from Hirschl and Adler, with essay by Roger Kimball. The catalogue is $25 from the gallery (quoted here). Note that the catalogue for Collins's previous show is now for sale on sale for twenty times that amount.

And then, of course....