Book Reviews

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016. 607 pages. $35.00.

As Rain Turns to Snow and Other Stories

Robert Morgan. Broadstone Books, 2017. 187 pages. $18.50.

Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics and the Black Literary Imagination

Vaughn Rasberry. Harvard University Press, 2016. 486 pages. $45.00.

Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh

David Madden. University of Tennessee Press, 2017. 229 pages. $26.95.

Law in American History: From Reconstruction through the 1920s

G. Edward White. Oxford University Press, 2016. 662 pages. $39.95.

Music Into Fiction: Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated

Theodore Ziolkowski. Camden House, 2017. 242 pages. $34.95.

Images of Depression Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn/Russell Lee/Marion Post Wolcott

Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter. Louisiana State University Press, 2017. 148 pages. $39.95.

Late Night, Early Morning

Allen Wier. University of Tennessee Press, 2017. 247 pages. $24.95.

The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History and the Slave Trade

Charles B. Dew. University of Virginia Press, 2016. 167 pages + 16 pages Notes and Index. $23.95.

The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

Thor Hanson. Basic Books, 2015. 277 pages. $26.99.

The Poetry of John Milton

Gordon Teskey. Harvard University Press, 2015. 640 pages. $49.95.

Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between

Linda Greenhouse. Harvard University Press, 2017. 166 pages. $22.95.