Book Reviews

Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance

Carla Kaplan. Harper Perennial, 2013. 544 pages. $28.99.

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Volume Six

Edited by Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins, with an Introduction by William Bedford Clark, General Editor. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Illustrated. 430 pages. $90.00.

Pimping Fictions

Justin Gifford. Temple University Press, 2013. 204 pages. $74.50; $24.50 (paperback).

The Universe in the Rearview Mirror

Dave Goldberg. Penguin-Plume, 2014. 352 pages. $17.00. [paperback]

The Novel: A Biography

Michael Schmidt. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. 1,200 pages. $39.95.

The Lives of the Novel: A History

Thomas G. Pavel. Princeton University Press, 2014. 360 pages. $35.00.

The Last Bizarre Tale

David Madden. University of Tennessee Press, 2014. 256 pages. $24.95.

Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism

Sarah Way Sherman. University of New Hampshire Press, 2013. 336 pages. $40.00.

Think Like a Freak

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2014. 268 pages. $28.99.

America’s Romance with the English Garden

Thomas J. Mickey. Ohio University Press, 2013. 272 pages. $26.95.

Achieving the Rare: Robert F. Christy’s Journey in Physics and Beyond

I-Juliana Christy. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2013. 349 pages. $38.00.

Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise

Nicolas Rasmussen. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 264 pages. $35.00.