6 Books We’re Looking Forward to in August

Summer reading enters its final stretch as 6 exciting new books hit the shelves in August (if you don’t count my own!). This month’s offerings span the centuries, moving from Renaissance theories of vision to contemporary debates over morality, inequality, and the future of art.A new biography explores the secret lives of John Singer Sargent, the queer Gilded Age society painter whose dazzling surfaces concealed a more guarded inner world. A manifesto by the artist collective Metahav