Book Reviews

Gothic Sculpture

Paul Binski. Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and Yale University Press, 2019. 287 pages. $55.00.

How To Think About God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers

Marcus Tullius Cicero. Selected, translated, and introduced by Philip Freeman. Princeton University Press, 2019. 151 pages. $16.95.

American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution

Nina Sankovitch. St. Martin’s Press, 2020. 386 pages. $29.99.

Firsts:100 Years of Yale Younger Poets

Carl Phillips, editor. Yale University Press, 2019. 400 pages. $65.00.

War and Religion: Europe and the Mediterranean from the First through the Twenty-first Centuries

Arnaud Blin. University of California Press, 2019. 360 pages. $34.95.

The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

T. H. Breen (ΦBK, Northwestern University). Belknap, Harvard University Press, 2019. 261 pages. $29.95.

The New Smart: How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children Thrive

Terry Roberts. Turner Publishing Company, 2019. 156 pages. $16.99.

The Long Grass

Lisa Rhoades. Saint Julian Press, 2020. 88 pages. $16.00.

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book

John Barton. Viking, 2019. 613 pages. $35.00.

The Lost Books of Jane Austen

Janine Barchas. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 284 pages. $35.00.

Nightmare Factories: The Asylum in the American Imagination

Troy Rondinone. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 334 pages. $34.95.

Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War

David Silkenat. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 358 pages. $39.95.