Avid Reader Press Review by Brian Tanguay For a relatively brief period the movers and shakers of Silicon Valley appeared to offer products that would make our lives more efficient,…
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On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times by Natasha Lennard
Verso Review by Brian Tanguay Natasha Lennard lays out the aim of On/Uncertainty in the first few pages: she seeks to track pernicious certainty in action to understand how it…
Mothsblood by Lynn D. Jung
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay An ancient discipline. A secret society. Precocious students. A complicated protagonist. These are some of the ingredients that create the world of Mothsblood, a bold…
Summer of ’71: Five Months That Changed America by John A. Jenkins
Citadel Press Review by Brian Tanguay I was twelve years old in 1971 and oblivious to much of the social and political turmoil happening in Washington D.C. and on university…
Please Don’t Touch The Body by Emily Doyle
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I appreciate a finely crafted short story and the eleven stories in this collection easily meet that criteria. For a debut collection, Emily Doyle displays…
Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy by Amy Westervelt
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Truth or spin. Fact or opinion. Journalism or propaganda. In our time, information flows in volumes impossible to keep pace with and much of it…
The Long American Shadow
Essay by Brian Tanguay I acquired American Visions by Edward L. Ayers and Democracy In Black by Eddie S. Glaude Jr., at the same time, but had no conscious intention…
California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California by Miriam Pawel
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay As Miriam Pawel writes in the Preface to her superb history of the University of California system, the many aspects of this educational juggernaut defy…
Wither by Dan Warner
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Wither is likely to cause nightmares for readers who view AI with suspicion or fear. The CEO of Regression is an arrogant Elon Musk-like character…
Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran
Scribner Canada Review by Brian Tanguay By the reckoning of the acclaimed Turkish writer, Ece Temelkuran, there are many ways to become unhomed. Climate change, war, and rising fascism are…