Books Received

Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks. Edited by Rivka Swenson and Elise Lauterbach. Cranbury, NJ: Associated Univ. Presses, 2008. 324 pp. $64.50 (cloth).

Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization. By Neferti X. M. Tadiar. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2009. 484 pp.

The Rhetoric of Certitude: C. S. Lewis’s Nonfiction Prose. By Gary L. Tandy. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2009. 152 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Broadcasting Modernism. Edited by Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, and Jane Lewty. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2009. 352 pp. $69.95 (cloth).

A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism. By Christopher Douglas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2009. $45 (cloth).

Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963. By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009. 564 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

Where the World Is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature. By Kim Savelson. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2009. 248 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $9.95 (CD).

Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader. Edited by Maren Linett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2009. 443 pp. $70 (cloth); $35 (paper).

Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession. By Christi A. Merrill. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2009. 380 pp. $70 (cloth).

Everything Will Be All Right. By Douglas Wallace. Austin, TX: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2009. 256 pp. $21.95 (paper).

What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy. By Gary Gutting. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009. 252 pp. $29.99 (paper).

Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses. Edited by Ralph Pordzik. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. 366 pp. $102 (cloth).

Hemingway’s Cuban Son: Reflections on the Writer by His Longtime Majordomo. By René Villarreal and Raúl Villarreal. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2009. 168 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Jack Turner. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2009. 496 pp. $40 (cloth).

Write Like Hemingway: Writing Lessons You Can Learn from the Master. By R. Andrew Wilson. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2009. 255 pp.

The Call of The Writer’s Craft: Writing and Selling the Book Within. By Tom Bird. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2009. 256 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Break Into Fiction: 11 Steps to Building a Story That Sells. By Mary Buckham and Dianna Love Snell. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2009. 256 pp. $14.95 (paper).

The Beat Generation and Counterculture: Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouc. By Raj Chandarlapaty. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 180 pp. $77.95 (cloth).

Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven Univ. Press, 2009. 216 pp. $55 (cloth).

Intangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language. By Ronald Schleifer. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009. 243 pp. $25 (paper).

Russian literature. By Andrew Baruch Wachtel and Ilya Vinitsky. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009. 316 pp.

Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. By Mary S. Gossy. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2009. 98 pp. $98 (cloth).

French Crime Fiction. Edited by Clare Gorrara. Cardiff: Univ. of Wales, Press, 2009. 192 pp. $85 (cloth).

The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. By Enda Duffy. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2009. 320 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)

The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism. By Kevin Floyd. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009. 304 pp.