Book Reviews

Alive Still: Nell Blaine American Painter

Cathy Curtis. Oxford University Press, 2019. 304 pages. $34.95.

Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can

Herbert S. Terrace. Columbia University Press, 2019. 219 pages. $28.00.

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Victoria Johnson. Liveright, 2018. 461 pages. $29.95.

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

Anne Frank. Adapted by Ari Folman. Illustrations by David Polonsky. Pantheon Books, 2018. $24.95.

Barnum: An American Life

Robert Wilson. Simon & Schuster, 2019. 341 pages. $28.00.

Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

Duncan White. Custom House, 2019. 782 pages. $32.50.

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Thor Hanson. Basic Books, 2019. 305 pages. $27.00.

Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature

Elizabeth Alice Honig. Reaktion Books, 2019. 269 pages. $22.50.

Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

George Hutchinson. Columbia University Press, 2018. 439 pages. $33.45.

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Michelle Dean. Grove Press, 2018. $26.00.

Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters

Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule. University of Chicago Press, 2018. 256 pages. $25.00.

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

Alan Stern and David Grinspoon. Picador, 2018. 295 pages. $28.00.