In their magisterial new biography, “Van Gogh: The Life,” Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith provide a guided tour through the personal world and the work of that Dutch painter, shining a bright light on the evolution of his art while articulating what is sure to be a controversial theory of his death at the age of 37.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/books/van-gogh-the-life-by-steven-naifeh-and-gregory-white-smith.html?_r=3&ref=michikokakutani