The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us, by Paul Tough Book of the week: Deborah D. Rogers and Howard P. Segal find that the old ideals of meritocracy have been squeezed out of American higher education By Deborah D. Rogers 14 November
Late-Life Love: A Memoir, by Susan Gubar Deborah Rogers on a testament to literature’s power to sustain life in the face of the indignities of disease and age By Deborah D. Rogers 24 January
American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World, by Joel Best This attempt to dissipate our anxiety reads like an interesting collection of essays rather than a coherent argument, writes Deborah D. Rogers By Deborah D. Rogers 21 May
The Biopolitics of Gender, by Jemima Repo A provocative study into a controversial subject is let down by a dense, academic style, says Deborah D. Rogers By Deborah D. Rogers 12 October
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Thousands of details from forgotten lives of domesticity enrich this first-rate history, writes Deborah D. Rogers By Deborah D. Rogers 23 February
