Book Reviews

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser. Metropolitan Books, 2017. 626 pages. $35.00

Monet the Collector

Marianne Mathieu and Dominique Lobstein. Musée Marmottan Monet. Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017. 284 pages. $50.00.

Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast

Megan Marshall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 366 pages. $30.00.

The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

Edwidge Danticat. Graywolf Press, 2017. 181 pages. $14.00.

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

Steven Stoll. Hill & Wang, 2017. 410 pages. $30.00.

Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History

Joseph North. Harvard University Press, 2017. 261 pages. $39.95.

At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present

Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord. Princeton University Press, 2017. 279 pages. $29.95.

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Power to Control Evolution

Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. 281 pages. $28.00.

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 291 pages. $7.99.

Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective

Margalit Fox. Random House, 2018. 319 pages. $27.00.

Slow Philosophy: Reading against the Institution

Michelle Boulous Walker. Bloomsbury, 2017. 305 pages. $24.95.

We Were Once Here

Michael McFee. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017. 88 pages. $15.95.