book by Stine Birk: Depicting the Dead

Released only last year, this new book by Stine Birk is one of the few monographs on Roman sarcophagi to be written in English.  Analyzing strategies of portraiture, with a particularly keen eye for complexities of gender, it deserves to make a splash.

The full reference:
Stine Birk, Depicting the Dead: Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits, Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity, no. 11 (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2013).

Addendum:  Birk's book is reviewed here by Diana Kleiner for the AJA Online.