Book Reviews

It Starts With Trouble: William Goyen And The Life Of Writing

Clark Davis. University of Texas Press, 2015. 400 pages + 19 black-and-white photographs. $30.00.

Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution

Eugene E. Harris. Oxford University Press, 2015. 226 pages. $29.95.

Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic

David Quint. Princeton University Press, 2014. 329 pages. $95.00 cloth; $35.00 paperback.

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

Danielle Allen. Liveright Publishing (W.W. Norton), 2014. 315 pages. $27.95.

Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England

Ramie Targoff. University of Chicago Press, 2014. 243 pages. $40.00.

Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘N’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science

Zoe Cormier. Da Capo Press, 2015. 327 pages. $26.99.

Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music, and Literature

Theodore Ziolkowski. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 237 pages. $45.00.

Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession

Lisa A. Phillips. Harper, 2015. 304 pages. $25.00.

Existentialism and Romantic Love

Skye Cleary. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 208 pages. $95.00.

Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Libraries

Alex Johnson. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 240 pages. $16.36.

Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

Andrew Balmford. University of Chicago Press, 2014. 264 pages. $18.00.

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

Barbara Taylor. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 295 pages. $20.00.