Book Reviews

Lake on Fire

Rosellen Brown. Sarabande Books, 2018. 349 pages. $17.95.

iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood

Jean M. Twenge. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 333 pages. $18.00.

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Penguin Random House, 2018. 327 pages. $28.00.

American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring

William Giraldi, W.W. Norton, 2018. 462 Pages. $30.00.

A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

Justin Martin. Da Capo Press, 2018. 318 pages. $28.00.

Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky. Penguin, 2017. 790 pages. $35.00.

Henry David Thoreau: A Life

Laura Dassow Walls. University of Chicago Press, 2017. 615 pages. $35.00.

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

Mike Wallace. Oxford University Press, 2017. 1,182 pages. $45.00.

Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France After Napoleon

Christine Haynes. Harvard University Press, 2018. 404 pages. $39.95.

Deaccessioning and its Discontents: A Critical History

Martin Gammon. MIT Press, 2018. 448 pages. $44.95.

Corot: Women

Mary Morton with contributions by David Ogawa, Sébastien Allard, and Heather McPherson. Distributed by Yale University Press, 2018. 180 pages. $50.00.

Nicolas de Staël in Provence

Edited by Marie du Bouchet and Gustav de Staël. Distributed by Yale University Press, 2018. 216 pages. $35.00.