Do you ever look at a work of art and wonder, how did the person behind it think? We always want to feel closer to the artists we admire.

Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites; By Ilya Shapiro; Broadside Books; 272 pp., $29.99 But then there was all the bad stuff, which could be actively nauseating. Many lawyers live down ...

Sotheby’s annual sales of Israeli & International Art and Important Judaica will take place on 18 & 19 December in New York.