Doubleday Review by Walter Cummins Like the characters and happenings in Kate Atkinson’s latest novel, its title—Our Noble Selves, a phrase of stoicism used by British soldiers—is ironic. It serves…
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The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism And The War On Democracy by Gil Durán
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,…
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…
Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
Knopf Review by David Starkey Emily St. John Mandel is one of those increasingly uncommon writers whose work appeals both to a popular and a literary audience. She’s a dab…
Varieties of Artistic Experience: Three Swiss Exhibition Catalogs: Marisol, Helen Frankenthaler, Swiss Art Brut
Hirmer | Deutscher Kuntsverlag | 5 Continents Review by David Starkey It was a hot summer in Switzerland this year, as it was almost everywhere on our beleaguered planet Earth,…
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Random House Review by Walter Cummins The title captures the central concern of Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, which addresses with depth and complexity what a community of individuals is willing…
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
Liveright Review by Walter Cummins In her latest book, Jill Lepore presents her analysis of how we have reached the creation of the Artificial State where machines set the guidelines…
Endless Endings: The Many Forms of Death and What They Teach Us About Life by Ricard Solé, trans. by Eduardo Aparicio
Princeton Review by Walter Cummins Endless Endings brings to mind lines from Hotspur’s dying speech in Henry IV, Part 1: “And time, that takes a survey of all the world, …