Book Reviews

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.

Law in American History: From Reconstruction through the 1920s

G. Edward White. Oxford University Press, 2016. 662 pages. $39.95.

Music Into Fiction: Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated

Theodore Ziolkowski. Camden House, 2017. 242 pages. $34.95.

Images of Depression Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn/Russell Lee/Marion Post Wolcott

Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter. Louisiana State University Press, 2017. 148 pages. $39.95.