Book Reviews

Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair

Christopher Oldstone-Moore. University of Chicago Press, 2016. 338 pages. $30.00.

Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting

Thomas D. Seeley. Princeton University Press, 2016. 184 pages. $22.95

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Viet Thanh Nguyen. Harvard University Press, 2016. 374 pages. $27.95.

Loving Literature: A Cultural History

Deidre Shauna Lynch. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 326 pages. $40.00.

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606

James Shapiro. Simon & Schuster, 2015. 384 pages. $30.00.

The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young

Somini Sengupta. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. 244 pages. $26.95.

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

John Le Carré. Viking, 2016. 310 pages. $28.00.

A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

Juliet Nicolson. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2016. 336 pages. $26.00.

The Philosopher: A History in Six Types

Justin E.H. Smith. Princeton University Press, 2016. 288 pages. $27.95.

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Janna Levin. Knopf, 2016. 231 pages. $26.95.

The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic

Ginger Strand. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2015. 305 pages. $27.00.

The Capitalist and the Critic: J.P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charles Molesworth. University of Texas Press, 2016. 244 pages. $29.95.