Book Reviews

Perfume River

Robert Olen Butler. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. 273 pages. $25.00.

Dissent: The History of an American Idea

Ralph Young. New York University Press, 2015. 640 pages + 38 halftones. $39.95.

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Dava Sobel. Viking, 2016. 324 pages + 16-page color insert. $30.00.

The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

E.M. Rose. Oxford University Press, 2015. 394 pages. $27.95.

Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets

Tyler Nordgren. Basic Books, 2016. 264 pages. $26.99.

Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair

Christopher Oldstone-Moore. University of Chicago Press, 2016. 338 pages. $30.00.

Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting

Thomas D. Seeley. Princeton University Press, 2016. 184 pages. $22.95

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Viet Thanh Nguyen. Harvard University Press, 2016. 374 pages. $27.95.

Loving Literature: A Cultural History

Deidre Shauna Lynch. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 326 pages. $40.00.

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606

James Shapiro. Simon & Schuster, 2015. 384 pages. $30.00.

The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young

Somini Sengupta. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. 244 pages. $26.95.

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

John Le Carré. Viking, 2016. 310 pages. $28.00.