Book Reviews

Ideas of Order: A Close Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Neil L. Rudenstine. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. 256 pages. $26.00.

Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions – A New Biological Principle of Disease

Stanley B. Prusiner. Yale University Press, 2014. 344 pages. $30.00.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

William Deresiewicz. Free Press, 2014. 256 pages. $26.00.

Water: Nature and Culture

Veronica Strang. Reaktion Books, 2015. 207 pages. Paperback. $24.95.

Class Divide: Yale ’64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties

Howard Gillette Jr. Cornell University Press, 2015. 285 pages. Illustrated. $26.26.

The Other Couch: Discovering Women’s Wisdom in Therapy

Patricia Peters Martin and Helene DeMontreux Houston. NorLights Press, 2015. 216 pages. $16.95.

The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment

Dallas G. Dennery II. Princeton University Press, 2015. 331 pages. $29.95.

Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen

Philip Ball. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 320 pages. $27.50.

Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus & Howard Nemerov

Alexander Nemerov. Fraenkel Gallery, 2015. 103 pages. $29.95.

Boswell’s Enlightenment

Robert Zaretsky. Harvard University Press, 2015. 288 pages. $26.95.

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

Michael Bundock. Yale University Press, 2015. 282 pages. $35.00.

The Civil War as Global Conflict: Capital Transnational Meanings Of The American Civil War

Edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. 308 pages. $49.95.