Book Reviews

Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America

Jesse Jarnow. Da Capo Press, 2016. 446 pages. $18.77.

Getting Off At Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune

John Pope. University Press of Mississippi, 2015. 348 pages. $30.00.

Lawrence Gowing: Selected Writings on Art

Edited by Sarah Whitfield. Ridinghouse, 2015. 459 pages. $36.00.

Portraits: John Berger on Artists

Edited by Tom Overton. Verso Books, 2015. 512 pages. $44.95.

With Dogs at the Edge of Life

Colin Dayan. Columbia University Press, 2016. 188 pages. $30.00.

The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944

Ian W. Toll. W.W. Norton, 2015. 622 pages. $35.00.

The First World War: Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front

Edited by Carl De Keyzer and David Van Reybrouck. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 240 pages. $65.00.

Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle

Douglas J. Emlen. Henry Holt and Company, 2014. 271 pages. $30.00.

City on a Grid: How New York Became New York

Gerard Koeppel. Da Capo Press, 2015. 296 pages. $29.99.

Beckett’s Art of Mismaking

Leland de la Durantaye. Harvard University Press, 2016. 194 pages. $29.00.

Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods

Jennifer A. Jordan. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 331 pages. $26.00.

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

James Turner. Princeton University Press, 2014. xxiv + 550 pp. $29.50.