Book Reviews

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.

Blood From the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic

Adam Jortner. University of Virginia Press, 2017. 247 pages. $45.00.

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

Anne C. Bailey. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 197 pages. $75.99.

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

Bettany Hughes. Da Capo Press, 2017. 800 pages. $40.00.