Here is the sixth section of The Economist’s best of 2008.
Culture and digressions
Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts. By Joseph Horowitz. HarperCollins; 480 pages; $27.50 and ₤27.50.
Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History: Volume I, 1863-1959. Edited by Bruce Altshuler. Phaidon; 410 pages; $90 and ₤45.
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English. By Henry Hitchings. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 440 pages; $27. John Murray; ₤16.99.
How Fiction Works. By James Wood. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 288 pages; $24. Jonathan Cape; ₤16.99.
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionised American Music. By Ted Gioia. Norton; 448 pages; $27.95 and ₤16.99.
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes. By Ferdinand Mount. Bloomsbury; 384 pages; ₤15.
Glenn A Knight
In my study
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