Book Reviews

The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel

Gary Saul Morson. Stanford University Press, 2012. 273 pages. $80.00.

A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s “Germania” From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

Christopher B. Krebs. W.W. Norton, 2011. 304 pages. $16.95 [paper]

Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures

Claudia L. Johnson. University of Chicago Press, 2012. 224 pages. $35.00.

Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy

Theodore Ziolkowski. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 230 pages. $39.95.

No Time Like the Present: A Novel

Nadine Gordimer. Picador, 2013. 434 pages. $27.00.

Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

Sam Leith. Basic Books, 2012. 312 pages. $26.99.

Books: A Living History

Martyn Lyons. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 224 pages. $34.95.

The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age

Martha C. Nussbaum. Harvard University Press, 2012. 245 pages. $26.95.

Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream

Mark Osteen. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 324 pages. $34.95.

An Ecology of Happiness

Eric Lambin. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. University of Chicago Press, 2012. 184 pages. $26.00.

Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for the Apocalypse

Jay Rubenstein. Basic Books, 2011. 424 pages. $29.00.

The Rise of Abraham Cahan

Seth Lipsky. Nextbook/Schocken, 2013. 224 pages. $26.00.