Reviews

Elizabeth Stice 7/24/25 Elizabeth Stice 7/24/25

California frenemies: an unsent letter

Michael Jimenez reviews Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik (Scribner, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 7/3/25 Elizabeth Stice 7/3/25

Look Over There

Elizabeth Stice reviews Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird by Mike Stark (Bison Books, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 6/26/25 Elizabeth Stice 6/26/25

Catching a Vibe: How Spotify Licensed an Experience and Commercialized a Culture

Kimberly A. Bain reviews Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (First One Signal Publishers, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 6/24/25 Elizabeth Stice 6/24/25

A Fair Fight

Joel Tannenbaum reviews How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev (Hachette, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 6/17/25 Elizabeth Stice 6/17/25

Profiles in Service

Elizabeth Stice reviews Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis et. al (Riverhead Books, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 5/1/25 Elizabeth Stice 5/1/25

Living on a Dream

Elizabeth Stice reviews Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley by Brent Underwood (Harmony, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 4/24/25 Elizabeth Stice 4/24/25

Chess: A Microcosm of the AI Revolution

Brody Eldridge reviews The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Peter Doggers (Puzzlewright Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 4/10/25 Elizabeth Stice 4/10/25

To Spur a Virtuous Cycle

Sarah Selden reviews Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (Crash Course Books, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 4/3/25 Elizabeth Stice 4/3/25

Remembrance of Things Past

Elizabeth Stice reviews On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves (Hachette, 2025)

Elizabeth Stice 3/13/25 Elizabeth Stice 3/13/25

Read one for the Gipper?

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Ancient Eight: College Football’s Ivy League and the Game They Play Today by John Feinstein (Hachette, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 2/20/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/20/25

Is a Return to Public Trust Possible?

Stephanie Bennett reviews Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope by Jeffrey Bilbro (Baylor University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 2/6/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/6/25

Knowing the System: A Tale of Exploitation in College Athletics

Kimberly Bain reviews Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports by Guy Lawson (Little A, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 1/9/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/9/25

“The American dream is calling: Won’t you pick up?”

Kimberly A. Bain reviews Drive: Scraping by in Uber’s America, One Ride at a Time by Jonathan Rigsby (Beacon Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 12/12/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/12/24

Islands in the Stream

Joel Tannenbaum reviews Streaming Music, Streaming Capitalism (Duke, 2024) by Eric Drott, Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke, 2024) by Rob Drew, and High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape (Univ. North Carolina, 2023) by Marc Masters.

Elizabeth Stice 11/14/24 Elizabeth Stice 11/14/24

Just Read It?

Elizabeth Stice reviews After all, there is No Finish Line by Actual Source Books (2024)

Elizabeth Stice 11/5/24 Elizabeth Stice 11/5/24

The Worst Journey in the World: Now Illustrated

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel. Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down Graphic Novel adapted by Sarah Airress adapted from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Letter Better Publishing, 2024)