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In its 2015 stage of (never-ending) evolution, Zeteo has not been reviewing books, although we are writing about them constantly in our main, Zeteo is Reading pieces. Below are the books reviewed in our previous phase, with links to the review texts. Image is from The Iconic Photographs by Steve McCurry (Phaidon reprint edition, 2012; first published by Art and Architecture, 2011). See Walter Cummins’ review: Photographing the Soul
— Wm. Eaton, Editor, December 2015
Past Reviews
Hélène Cixous’s Tomb(e)
Review of Tomb(e)
Reviewed by Walter Cummins
Of Courtesans, Concubines, and Extraordinary Women
Review of Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000-1400 by Beverly Bossler (Harvard University Press, 2012).
Reviewed by William Eaton in conjunction with Heather Luciano
What is Permitted- To People and Bonobos
Review of The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans De Waal (W. W. Norton, 2014).
Reviewed by Walter Cummins
All I Want is a Job!
Review of All I Want Is A Job! Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System by Mary Gatta (Stanford University Press, 2014).
Reviewed by Moorel Bey
What matters about Why Internet Porn Matters
Review of Why Internet Porn Matters
Reviewed by Alexia Raynal
Culinary Star Wars
Review of The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining 
Reviewed by Claire Stewart
Translating Dickinson
A discussion of four Emily Dickinson poems in the context of Françoise Delphy’s French translations appearing in Poésies complètes : Edition bilingue français-anglais by Emily Dickinson and Françoise Delphy (Flammarion, 2009).
By William Eaton
Notes of a Year of James Baldwin
A review of the opening session of the Year of Baldwin, New York Live Arts, April 2014.
Reviewed by Rachel Corbman
The Groups We Belong To
A review of The Big Picture: America in Panorama
Reviewed by Walter Cummins
Revisiting this Proverbial Question of Equal Opportunity
A review of No Citizen Left Behind
Reviewed by Moorel Bey
Scent and Subversion
A review of Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume
Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Barnes
Poetry as Conversation
Discussion, orchestrated by William Eaton, of Haikus du temps présent by Mayuzumi Madoka, translated into French by Corinne Atlan (Philippe Picquier, 2012)
The Evolution of Dinner
A review of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll (Basic Books, 2013)
Reviewed by Claire Stewart
Torture: Fact and Fiction
A review of Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination
Reviewed by Jennifer Dean
Photographing the Soul
A review of The Iconic Photographs
Reviewed by Walter Cummins
The Chosen Comedians
A review of No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
Reviewed by Daniel Taub
The Unfeathered Bird
A review of The Unfeathered Bird by Katrina van Grouw (Princeton University Press, 2013).
Reviewed by Edward F. Mooney
After von Trotta’s Arendt
Taking off from Hannah Arendt (2013), directed by Margarethe von Trotta; screenplay by Pam Katz and Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay); with Barbara Sukowa in the title role.
Notes by William Eaton
Eating Intelligent Beings
A review of Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello (Columbia University Press, 2012); Animal Rights Without Liberation: Applied Ethics and Human Obligations by Alasdair Cochrane (Columbia University Press, 2012); and Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights by Élisabeth de Fontenay (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Walter Cummins
Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins
A review of Biogea, by Michel Serres. Translated by Randolph Burks (Univocal, 2012); distributed by University of Minnesota Press
Reviewed by Ashok Karra
The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual
A review of Finding Oneself in the Other by G.A. Cohen (Princeton University Press, 2013)
Reviewed by William Eaton
The Destruction of a Presidency
A review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America by James T. Patterson (Basic Books, 2012)
Reviewed by Alan Stein
Thoreau Looms Up Bigger and Bigger
A review of Thoreau in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, edited by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis(University of Iowa Press, 2012)
Reviewed by William Eaton
Nothing to Sniff At
A review of The Art of Scent, an exhibit at The Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle, New York City, November 20, 2012 to February 24, 2013.
Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Barnes
We Are Also What We Eat With
A review of Consider the Fork: A History of How we Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson (Basic Books, 2012)
Reviewed by Claire Stewart
“The past is always fictional”: Crypto-Jews and the Search for Identity in El Iluminado
A review of El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin (Basic Books, 2012)
Reviewed by Daniel Taub
The Worlds of the Ordinary
A review of On the Shoreline of Knowledge: Irish Wanderings by Chris Arthur (University of Iowa Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Walter Cummins
From Impractical to Irreplaceable
A review of In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, by Ian Stewart (Basic Books, 2012)
Reviewed by Bruce D. Rhodewalt
Reading Women Reading
A review of The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack (Yale University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Rachel M. Brownstein
Who’s Happy Now?
A review of Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society by Peter N. Stearns (New York University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Victoria Ludas Orlofsky
Adorno Was Right?
A review of Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World by Daniel Horowitz(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Reviewed by William Eaton
Memory Stor(i)es
A review of Memory: Fragments of a Modern History by Alison Winter (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Stuart Johnson
Into the Vegetable Garden
A review of Vegetables: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan (The University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Stephanie Tsank
Seeking Creatural Diversity
A review of Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers by Juliana Schiesari (University of California Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Walter Cummins
For Want of Wonder
A review of Floating Gold: A Natural (& Unnatural) History of Ambergris by Christopher Kemp (The University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Barnes
The Price of Uranium: the Congo and Hammarsköld
A review of Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa by Susan Williams (Columbia University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Paul Kelly
Sutra as Power Play
A review of The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript, translated by Philip B. Yampolsky, and Readings of the Platform Sutra, edited by Morten Schlutter and Stephen F. Teiser (both from Columbia University Press, 2012)
Reviewed by William Eaton
Surface and Depth, Medicine and Art
A review of The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination by Julie Anderson, Emma Barnes, and Emma Shackleton (The University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Stuart Johnson
James Watt Did Not Want Information to Be Free
A review of The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry & Innovation by William Rosen (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Reviewed by Clifford D. Conner
A Contingent Historical Thing: American Artists in a House Divided
A review of A House Divided: American Art since 1995 by Anne Middleton Wagner (University of California Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Keith Muchowski
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