Book Reviews

Teaching Plato in Palestine

Carlos Fraenkel. Princeton University Press, 2015. 240 pages. $27.95.

The Notebooks

Jean-Michele Basquiat. Ed. Larry Warsh. Princeton University Press, 2015. 304 pages. $29.95.

To Live And Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South

Angela Jill Cooley. University of Georgia Press, 2015. 207 pages. $24.95.

The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology

Alton D. Morris. University of California Press, 2015. 320 pages. $29.95.

Shirley Jaffe: Forms of Dislocation

Raphael Rubinstein. Flammarion, 2014. 271 pages. $65.00. (Available in America through info@tibordenagy.com.)

Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts

Robert M. Dowling. Yale University Press, 2014. 584 pages. $35.00.

Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

Mark L. Winston. Harvard University Press, 2014. 296 pages. $24.95.

A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography

Anne M. Lyden. The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, 2014. 232 pages. $50.00.

Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern

Francine Prose. Yale University Press, 2015. 211 pages. $25.00.

Whatever Happened to the Metric System: How America Kept Its Feet

John Bemelmans Marciano. Bloomsbury, 2014. 310 pages. $26.00.

The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time

Jimena Canales. Princeton University Press, 2015. 479 pages. $35.00.

American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

Paula Rabinowitz. Princeton University Press, 2014. 300 pages + Acknowledgments and Notes. $29.95.