..., surely the scholar of the printed book. A Princeton editor told him enthusiastically how well one of his books was doing. Chartier, delighted: “How well300 copies sold in three years.” That would be a bit of a shocker for any of us who try to write interesting books...

...Natalie Zemon Davis Jason Scott-Warren, Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 286 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2002 LITTLE REVIEWS Aris Fioretos, The Gray Book (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), 152 pp. The absence-of-color gray and the semiotics of the absence-of-quantity zero are the lead...

...G. Thomas Tanselle Needham Paul , Galileo Makes a Book: The First Edition of “Sidereus Nuncius,” Venice, 1610 ( Berlin : Akademie Verlag , 2011 ), 249 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Glenn S. Holland Barton John , A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book ( New York : Viking , 2019 ), 640 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 11 6 using everything from handwritten notes to cut and pastes...

...H. R. Woudhuysen Rydell Anders , The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance , trans. Koch Henning ( New York : Viking , 2017 ), 368 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...G. Thomas Tanselle PMLA 121.1 (January 2006): Special Issue on The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature, ed. Seth Lerer and Leah Price. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Peter Malkin, ed., Basil Bunting on Poetry (Baltimore, MD...

...Denis Donoghue Robert Alter, The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), 518 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong with Democracy? From...

...William M. Chace Birmingham Kevin , The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's “Ulysses” . ( New York : Penguin , 2014 ), 417 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Barry Allen Jullien François , The Book of Beginnings , trans. Gladding Jody . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2015 ), 152 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 LITTLE REVIEWS François Jullien, The Book of Beginnings, trans. Jody Gladding...

...G. Thomas Tanselle; Jeffrey M. Perl Current technological opportunities for preserving the texts of books, above all the microfilming process, have the unfortunate side effect, Tanselle argues, of destroying the books themselves. This modern form of book-burning is all the more unfortunate insofar...

... puncturing the balloons of philosophers who think of natural science as the area of culture that uncovers “hard facts,” as a paradigm of rationality, and as a source of metaphysical truth. In this book he targets econ- omists who (unlike Amartya Sen, one of Putnam’s heroes) try to make their dis- cipline...

...G. Thomas Tanselle [email protected] Robin Myers , Michael Harris , and Giles Mandelbrote , eds., Lives in Book History: Changing Contours of Research over Forty Years ( London : Garendon Press , 2022 ), 144 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 One...

...Daniel Boyarin Pagels Elaine , Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation ( New York : Viking , 2012 ), 246 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Pierre Bouretz, D’un ton...

...Yaakov Mascetti Hacker Joseph R. and Shear Adam , eds., The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 ), 336 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

... into the book, Solzhenitsyn shares a pensive moment, revealing to what extent he was a product of communist filters, both social and ideological. Abroad, he admits, “I have gotten used to a lack of support from all sides.” Before 1971, other than the Soviet government, “I seemed to have no enemies, not a single...

...G. Thomas Tanselle David Pearson, Books as History: The Importance of Books beyond Their Texts (London: British Library, 2008), 208 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion...

...G. Thomas Tanselle Larry McMurtry, Books: A Memoir (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 259 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories and the Western Imagination, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Cambridge, MA...

...Jeffrey M. Perl George Steiner, My Unwritten Books (New York: New Directions, 2008), 192 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York: Grove, 2006), 383 pp. Halfway...

...Linda Safran Gertsman's book fills a lacuna we did not even know we had. Scholars will surely identify more such paradoxical spaces and, like medieval readers before them, will fill them with interpretive brio. One term that surprises by its absence from Gertsman's book is iconoclasm...