Book Reviews

Reading Style: A Life in Sentences

Jenny Davidson. Columbia University Press, 2014. 195 pages. $25.00.

Why Jane Austen?

Rachel M. Brownstein. Columbia University Press, 2011. 285 pp. $29.50.

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson. Basic Books, 2013. 320 pages. $16.00.

Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet

Simon Kelly and April M. Watson. Yale University Press, 2013. 312 pages. $35.00.

Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction

B. J. Hollars. University of New Mexico Press, 2014. 192 pages. $29.95.

The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. Princeton University Press, 2014. $29.95.

Jane Austen, Game Theorist

Michael Suk-Young Chwe. Princeton University Press, 2014. 296 pages. $22.95 [paperback].

Accidental Intolerance: How We Stigmatize ADHD and How We Can Stop

Susan C.C. Hawthorne. Oxford University Press, 2013. 224 pages. $59.95.

To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

Paul Farmer. Edited by Jonathan Weigel. University of California Press, 2013. 294 pages. $26.95.

On Paper

Nicholas Basbanes. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 430 pages. $35.00.

Americans and the Experience of Delphi

Edited by Paul Lorenz and David Roessel. Somerset Hall Press, 2013. 318 pages. $34.95.

Girlpants and Gasoline

David Zucher. The Sound a Doggie Makes, 2014. 184 pages. $3.99 (Kindle).