Book Reviews

On the complexities of lumping psychiatric patients into categories

he Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind · by Noga Arikha

English versions of foreign literature must stand on their own

Translating Myself and Others · by Jhumpa Lahiri

The explosive writer who created worlds alien and mundane

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys · by Miranda Seymour

Ethical inquiry requires lived experience, not just logical examination

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life · by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman

The parallel lives of Moby-Dick’s creator and the historian who rescued him from obscurity

Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times · by Aaron Sachs

Has one of the 20th century’s greatest unsolved crimes finally been cracked?

Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University · by Richard White

The enigmatic thinker behind the Large Hadron Collider

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass · by Frank Close

How a teenage rebel rose to the summit of British literary life

Revisiting an immortal 19th-century English poet

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph · by Lucasta Miller

The region has long been an object of dreams, desire, and misunderstanding

Extreme North: A Cultural History · by Bernd Brunne