Book Reviews

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Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer

Carol Sklenicka. Scribner, 2019. 580 pages. $35.00.

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Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections

Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn. Princeton University Press, 2020. 197 pages. $35.00.

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What’s Your Pronoun: Beyond He & She

Dennis Barron. Liveright, 2020. 283 pages. $26.95.

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Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

Bart D. Ehrman. Simon and Schuster, 2020. 311 pages. $28.00.

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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education

Scott Newstok. Princeton University Press, 2020. 200 pages. $19.95.

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The Zookeepers’ War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War

J.W. Mohnhaupt. Translated by Shelley Frisch. Simon & Schuster, 2019. 272 pages. $26.00.

Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

Benjamin E. Park. Liveright, 2020. 324 pages. $28.95.

Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

Adam Frank. W. W. Norton & Co, 2018. 262 pages. $26.95.

The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America

Sarah E. Igo. Harvard University Press, 2018. 555 pages. $35.00.

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Imani Perry. Beacon Press, 2018. 237 pages. $26.95.

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham. Simon & Schuster, 2019. 538 pages. $29.95.

The Book of Collateral Damage

Sinan Antoon. Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright. Yale University Press, 2019. 312 pages. $24.00.