Book Reviews

What Love Is: And What It Could Be

Carrie Jenkins. Basic Books, 2017. 213 pages. $26.99.

The Crucible of Islam

G.W. Bowersock. Harvard University Press, 2017. 240 pages. $25.00.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson. W.W. Norton, 2017. 222 pages. $18.95.

The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

Timothy Hyman. Thames & Hudson, 2016. 256 pages. $50.00.

Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale

Elizabeth Alice Honig. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. 265 pages. $84.95.

Margin of Victory: Five Battles that Changed the Face of Modern War

Douglas Macgregor. Naval Institute Press, 2016. 268 pages. $34.95.

Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories

Rob Brotherton. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2015. 304 pages. $27.00.

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Rebecca Traister. Simon & Schuster, 2016. 352 pages. $18.17.

Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake

Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press, 2015. 332 pages, with 40 color plates and 56 illustrations. $30.00.

Becoming Jane Jacobs

Peter L. Laurence. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 365 pages. $34.95.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance. Harper 2016. 272 pages. $27.99.

On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, The First Century

Daniel R. Coquillette and Bruce A. Kimball. Harvard University Press, 2015. 688 pages. $39.95.