Book Reviews

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.

Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation

Benjamin Franklin Martin. Northern Illinois University Press, 2017. 233 pages. $39.00.

The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

Sean B. Carroll. Princeton University Press, 2016. 263 pages. $24.95.

Revolution and the Historical Novel

John McWilliams. Lexington Books, 2018. 299 pages. $120.00.

The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616

Sir John Baker. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 570 pages. $155.00.

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

Peter Brooks. Basic Books, 2017. 241 pages. $32.00.

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016. 607 pages. $35.00.

As Rain Turns to Snow and Other Stories

Robert Morgan. Broadstone Books, 2017. 187 pages. $18.50.

Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics and the Black Literary Imagination

Vaughn Rasberry. Harvard University Press, 2016. 486 pages. $45.00.

Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh

David Madden. University of Tennessee Press, 2017. 229 pages. $26.95.