Book Reviews

Twenty-six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film

Alexandra Zapruder. Twelve: Hachette, 2016. 471 pages. $27.00.

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form

David Hering. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 202 pages. $27.95

The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry

Cynthia R. Chapman. Yale University Press, 2016. 336 pages. $85.00.

The Miracle Myth: Why Belief In The Resurrection And The Supernatural Is Unjustified

Larry Shapiro. Columbia University Press, 2016. 168 pages. $27.95.

Scientists Making a Difference

One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions.
Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Susan T. Fiske, and Donald J. Foss. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 512 pages. Paper. $34.99.

Dance: American Art, 1830-1960

Ed. Jane Dini. Detroit Institute of Arts, 2016. Distributed by Yale University Press. 304 pages. $55.00.

Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference

Bruce Fink. Polity Press, 2016. 253 pages. $24.95.

Perfume River

Robert Olen Butler. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. 273 pages. $25.00.

Dissent: The History of an American Idea

Ralph Young. New York University Press, 2015. 640 pages + 38 halftones. $39.95.

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Dava Sobel. Viking, 2016. 324 pages + 16-page color insert. $30.00.

The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

E.M. Rose. Oxford University Press, 2015. 394 pages. $27.95.

Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets

Tyler Nordgren. Basic Books, 2016. 264 pages. $26.99.