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Robert Birnbaum's web-journal is OurManinBoston. He is also roving editor at Identitytheory and contributing editor at The Morning News. He begins countless books and manages to complete close to 200 every year. He lives in suburban Boston with Beny his black dog.

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The Best Fine Art Books of 2015

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From the collection of one of the best museums in the U.S. to a retrospective on Basquiat, the best in books on fine art from 2015.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Dec 28, 2015

Best Coffee Table Books of 2015

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From yoga to a world atlas, The Daily Beast’s selections for the best coffee table books (and presents) of 2015.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Dec 24, 2015

The Best Photo Books of 2015

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Visually stimulating and incredibly powerful, the following are The Daily Beast’s selections for the best photography books of 2015.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Dec 21, 2015

The Best Books Ever Written About Football

LITERARY TOUCHDOWNS

The sport has inspired some of our best writers, who’ve tackled everything from fandom to concussions. This reading list should hold you all the way to the Super Bowl.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Sep 20, 2015

The Season’s Best Baseball Books

Solid Roster

From pinstripes to the penitentiary (where homers took time off your sentence), from knuckleballs to Mighty Casey, these eclectic baseball titles are all winners.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Apr 12, 2015

Best Coffee Table Books of 2014

Big and Beautiful

Books by artists and about artists, books that are works of art—it was a great year for the coffee table book, from Goya to Dalí, from tattoos to World War I in color.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Dec 13, 2014

The Literature of Futbol

Keepers

From Pele on the beautiful game to Bill Buford on the sport’s dark side, check out a complete team of terrific books that give you all the prep you need for the World Cup.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Jun 25, 2014

Baseball Books Bring the Heat

‘You Never Know’

Wrigley Field, Ted Williams, Nolan Ryan, Sabermetrics, the Pete Rose controversy—a fine new crop of baseball books looks at the old, the new and the very weird.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Apr 11, 2014

A Novelist Not to Miss

Past Imperfect

Justin Cartwright’s ‘Lion Heart’ toggles back and forth between the present and the Crusades, probing the ties both filial and romantic that bind us all.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Mar 25, 2014

Holiday Coffee Table Books

So Pretty

From a massive atlas of the world to Helen Frankenthaler’s paintings, here are the 26 most beautiful, expensive, and fascinating art and photography books published this year.

Robert Birnbaum | Published Dec 17, 2013

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