Book Reviews

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Eric Foner. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. 275 pages. $26.95.

The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West’s Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It

Joan Breton Connelly. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 485 pages. $35.00.

The Meaning of Human Existence

Edward O. Wilson. W.W. Norton/Liveright, 2014. 208 pages. $23.95.

The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World

Andrea Wulf. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 473 pages. $30.00.

Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

T.J. Stiles. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 582 pages. $30.00.

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, 2015. 262 pages. $30.00.

The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography

Scott Donaldson. Penn State University Press, 2015. 284 pages. $39.95.

The Face of the Buddha

William Empson. Edited by Rupert Arrowsmith. Oxford University Press, 2016. 208 pages. $49.95.

New York Studio Conversations: Seventeen Women Talk about Art

Edited by Stephanie Buhmann. The Green Box Kunst Editionen, Berlin, 2016. 215 pages. $22.50.

Is God Happy?: Selected Essays

Leszek Kolakowski. Basic Books, 2013. 327 pages. $28.99.

National Geographic’s Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary

Susan Tyler Hitchcock, foreword by Stephen Alvarez. National Geographic, 2014. 400 pages. $40.00.

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

Victoria Tennant. University of Chicago Press, 2014. 256 pages. $55.00.