Book Reviews

The Mamluk Sultanate:  A History

Carl F. Petry. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 358 pages. $29.99 (paperback).

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Francesca Peacock. Pegasus, 2023. 383 pages. $29.95.

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

Pekka Hämäläinen. W. W. Norton, 2022. 592 pages. $40.00.

The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

Ludovic Slimak. Pegasus Books, 2024. 193 pages. $29.95.

Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson

Suzaan Boettger. University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 415 pages. $34.95. 

From Scarsdale: A Childhood

Dan O’Brien. Dalkey Archive Press, 2023. 216 pages. $16.95.

Matisse: The Only Blue

Laura Marello. Guernica World Editions, 2022. 136 Pages. $17.95.

Getting to Good Friday:  Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland

Marilynn Richtarik. Oxford University Press, 2023. $40.00.

The Archivists: Stories

Daphne Kalotay. Northwestern University Press, 2023. 221 pages. $20.00.

Of Time and Knoxville: Fragment of an Autobiography

Anne W. Armstrong. Linda Behrend, editor. University of Tennessee Press, 2022; illustrated. $34.95

Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Morgan. Louisiana State University Press, 2023. 382 pages; 33 Illustrations. $39.95.

The Song of Simon de Montfort: England’s First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry

Sophie Thérèse Ambler. Oxford University Press, 2019. 428 pages. $29.95.