Book Reviews

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

Steven Stoll. Hill & Wang, 2017. 410 pages. $30.00.

Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History

Joseph North. Harvard University Press, 2017. 261 pages. $39.95.

At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present

Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord. Princeton University Press, 2017. 279 pages. $29.95.

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Power to Control Evolution

Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 281 pages. $28.00.

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 291 pages. $7.99.

Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective

Margalit Fox. Random House, 2018. 319 pages. $27.00.

Slow Philosophy: Reading against the Institution

Michelle Boulous Walker. Bloomsbury, 2017. 305 pages. $24.95.

We Were Once Here

Michael McFee. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017. 88 pages. $15.95.

A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century

Jerome Charyn. Bellevue Literary Press, 2016. 255 pages. Paperback. $19.95.

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea

Mitchell Duneier. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 304 pages. $28.00.

Grant

Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2017. 1,074 pages. $40.00.

Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf

Mehran Kamrava. Cornell University Press, 2018. 220 pages. $29.95.