In which we talk books

If you are looking for a nicely juicy book to sink your teeth into, you might well enjoy Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo. I tore through it last week, and although it is non-fiction, it reads like a thriller. The book chronicles the nefarious deeds of John Drewe, a con artist who managed to dupe the art world for several years, sending commissioned forgeries into circulation and faking the provenance of each piece to lend authenticity to his cons. (The most fascinating tidbit is that he did so by putting material into museum archives, rather than taking it out.) Read an excerpt here.