Contents
4 Marina Warner Relations of Power: Women’s Networks in the Middle Ages edited by Emma O. Bérat,
Rebecca Hardie, and Irina Dumitrescu
10 Larry Rohter Palmares by Gayl Jones
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho by Gayl Jones
16 Jarrett Earnest Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Daniel Oppenheimer
The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded by Dave Hickey
Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey
22 Sophie Pinkham Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change by Thane Gustafson
25 Lynn Hunt Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most by Marcel Gauchet
28 Laura Kolbe The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain by Haider Warraich
An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
by Abdul- Ghaaliq Lalkhen
Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart
32 Richard Sieburth Poem
33 George B. Stauffer Berg by Bryan Simms and Charlotte Erwin
36 James Mann A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution
of American Conservatism by Edward H. Miller
38 Catherine Nicholson Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton by Katie Kadue
Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England by Timothy M. Harrison
Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton by Joe Moshenska
41 James Quandt Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave a film series at the Museum of Modern Art,
New York City; and the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Legacy of the New Wave in French Cinema by Douglas Morrey
French New Wave: A Revolution in Design by Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh,
and Christopher Frayling
44 Peter E. Gordon Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas by Axel Honneth
47 Scott W. Stern Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit by Josiah Rector
48 Diane Seuss Poem
50 Frances Wilson Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti
52 Jed S. Rakoff Rethinking Securities Law by Marc I. Steinberg
54 Keith Thomas The Making of Oliver Cromwell by Ronald Hutton
56 Annie Sparrow Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War by Leonard Rubenstein
Necessary Risks: Professional Humanitarianism and Violence Against Aid Workers by Abby Stoddard
59 Andrew Delbanco Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell,
and Alfred L. Brophy
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
and three other books on slavery and American universities
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