Book Reviews

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, Elizabeth Hinton (2016) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 332 pp., ISBN 978-0-67473-723-5, h/bk, £47.50/$35.91, p/bk, £14.33/$18.95 Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers, Sabrina Fuchs Abrams (ed.) (2017) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 263 pp., ISBN 973-3-31956-728-0, h/bk, £71.50 Paul Auster’s Ghosts: The Echoes of European and American Tradition, María Laura Arce Álvarez (2018) Lanham: Lexington Books, 171 pp., ISBN 978-1-49856-163-1, h/bk, £60.00