WHAT AMERICA READ:
Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920–1960.
By Gordon Hutner.
Univ. of N.C. Press. 450 pp. $39.95
THE AGE OF COMFORT:
When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began.
By Joan DeJean.
Bloomsbury. 295 pp. $28
NAMING NATURE:
The Clash Between Instinct and Science.
By Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
Norton. 344 pp. $27.95
THE AGE OF WONDER:
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.
By Richard Holmes.
Pantheon. 552 pp. $40
THE EVOLUTION OF OBESITY.
By Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 392 pp. $40
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN JUDAISM:
Transformation and Renewal.
By Dana Evan Kaplan.
Columbia Univ. Press. 446 pp. $34.50
THE SOURCE: “What Do Experts Know?” by Wilfred M. McClay, in National Affairs, Fall 2009.
THE SOURCE: “Decoding the Flag” by Cheryl Dietrich, in The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2009.
THE SOURCE: “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?” by Paul Krugman, in The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 6, 2009.
THE SOURCE: “The Economic Impacts of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks” edited by S. Brock Blomberg and Adam Z. Rose, in Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2009.