Book Reviews

Beowulf

Translated by Stephen Mitchell. Yale University Press, 2017. 264 pages. $26.00.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Mary Norris. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. 240 pages. $24.99.

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

Lindsay Tuggle. University of Iowa Press, 2017. 276 pages. $63.90.

American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Caroline Winterer. Yale University Press, 2016. 355 pages. $35.00.

Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno

Raymond Geuss. Harvard University Press, 2017. 334 pages. $29.95.

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

David Armitage. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 349 pages. $27.95.

Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres

Peter Pesic. MIT Press, 2017. 330 pages. $38.00.

David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale

Elena Filipovic. An Afterall Book. Distributed by MIT Press, 2017. 157 pages. $19.95.

My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach us to Live, Love, and Die

Kevin Toolis. Da Capo Press, 2018. 275 pages.

The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History

Susan Cahill. St. Martin’s/Griffin, 2017. 297 pages.

Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy

John Crowe Ransom, edited by Jason Peters, introduction by Jay T. Collier. University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. $25.00.

Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

Edited by Aaron B. O’Connell. University of Chicago Press, 2017. 378 pages. $30.00.