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10 best books of August: the Monitor's picks

Here are the 10 August titles given the highest marks by the Monitor's book critics.

5. 'The Art of Rivalry,' by Sebastian Smee

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee profiles four close friendships between pairs of artists: Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon. Each bond proved formative to the men who shared it. You can read the Monitor's review of "The Art of Rivalry" here.

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