Johns Hopkins Review by Walter Cummins Kathryn Hughes appears to have taken great pleasure in writing Catland, bouncing back and forth between considering the life of Louis Wain, an artist…
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age To AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Random House Review by Walter Cummins It turns out that Yuval Noah Harari, in Nexus, his latest book, isn’t a complete fatalist. But one has to read to the end…
The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country by Rosie Schaap
Mariner Review by Walter Cummins My own attempt at a geographic cure many years ago ended up as foolhardy, which is the common result for most who try. Canadian psychologist…
What Is It Like to Be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer
Eastover Review by Walter Cummins Despite the seeming implication of Chris Arthur’s title of this, his tenth essay collection, he is not seeking an existential generalization about an abstract ontological…
Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence by Sara Imari Walker
Riverhead Review by Walter Cummins Before I attempt to say something about a book that theorizes life’s emergence from the perspective of the science of physics, I should admit that…
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Riverhead Review by Walter Cummins It’s no surprise that Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods is a bestseller in the thriller & suspense and—not as obvious to me—literary fiction…
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin by Andre Dubus III
Norton Review by Walter Cummins Andre Dubus III explores his vulnerabilities throughout the essays in this collection. Despite his literary regard and economic success as a writer and university teacher…
The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella
Scribner Review by Walter Cummins As he demonstrated in his first two novels, Ethan Joella possesses a special ability to create a community of interrelated characters, each of whom is…
American Outrage: A Testamentary by H. L. Hix
BlazeVOX Review by Walter Cummins With every page of American Outrage—with every listing of the name of a person killed by gun violence, with every accumulating fact about guns in…