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Will and Attention by Meghan O’Gieblyn

The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott

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The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism And The War On Democracy by Gil Durán

Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy by Amy Westervelt

Fiction Reviews

Partita by Barbara Kingsolver

The House Where Nothing Hurts by Ali Fountain

The Leveret by Anna Goldreich

The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar

Will and Attention by Meghan O’Gieblyn

Doubleday Review by Walter Cummins I first encountered Meghan O’Gieblyn’s writing and thinking in one of her essays for The New York Review of Books. I was used to that…

The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott

Partita by Barbara Kingsolver

The House Where Nothing Hurts by Ali Fountain

Sleeping Beauties: Where Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up by David Byrne

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