Book Reviews

America, América: A New History of the New World 

Greg Grandin. Penguin Press, 2025. 768 pages. $35.00.

Every Living Thing

Jason Roberts. Random House, 2024. 432 pages. $36.99.

Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

Julia Cooke. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2026. 448 pages. $34.00.

The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History 

Odd Arne Westad. Henry Holt, 2026. 256 pages. $27.99.

The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War

James Shapiro. Penguin Press, 2024. 358 pages. $30.00.

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal. Penguin Random House, 2025. 752 pages. $25.00.

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. One World, 2024. 496 pages. $20.94.

Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World

Guru Madhavan. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. 384 pages. $22.99.

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk. Yale University Press, 2023. 616 pages. $35.00.

The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls. Routledge, 2024. $45.59 (paperback).

Mark Twain

Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2025. 1174 pages. $45.00.

Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2024. 344 pages. $29.00.