Reviews

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Florida on Film: The Florida Project

Paige Stanish reflects on The Florida Project (2017) and what it says about the Sunshine State.

Elizabeth Stice 12/31/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/31/24

Goodbye to all that?

William M Knoblauch reviews The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Elizabeth Stice 12/26/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/26/24

English Common Law and British Imperial Intention

Elizabeth Stice reviews An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy by Christian R. Burset (Yale University Press, 2023)

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

A Moveable Feast, A Press Release, and a Poem

A winter-themed excerpt from A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, a Christmas address from Winston Churchill, and one Christmas poem

Elizabeth Stice 12/19/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/19/24

Cormac McCarthy’s Walking Dead

Brody Eldridge reviews Manu Larcenet’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road (Abrams ComicArts, 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 12/10/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/10/24

This scepter’d isle… England that was wont to conquer others

Elizabeth Stice reviews Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire by Charlotte Lydia Riley (Harvard University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 12/3/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/3/24

Indigenous Languages, History, and Accepting People for Who They Are: The Case of Squanto

Matthew Sparacio reviews Squanto: A Native Odyssey by Andrew Lipman (Yale University Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 11/28/24 Elizabeth Stice 11/28/24

Thanksgiving: books we’re thankful for

Elizabeth Stice 11/26/24 Elizabeth Stice 11/26/24

Atomic Love

Sarah Selden reviews Held by Anne Michaels (Penguin Random House, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 11/19/24 Elizabeth Stice 11/19/24

The Best of All Possible Biographies?

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days by Michael Kempe (W.W. Norton & Co., 2024)

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 11/12/24 Elizabeth Stice 11/12/24

The Trees that Outlast and Tending One's Own Garden in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's The Bullet Swallower

Brody Eldridge reviews The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 11/7/24 Elizabeth Stice 11/7/24

Mofro, Olustee, and the Blues of Lost Places

Tom Chesnes reviews the new album Olustee by JJ Grey and Mofro (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)

Elizabeth Stice 10/31/24 Elizabeth Stice 10/31/24

Coming Back to You: Mark Kinzer’s Jewish Christian Scriptures

Michael Jimenez reviews Stones the Builders Rejected: The Jewish Jesus, His Jewish Disciples, and the Culmination of History by Mark S. Kinzer (Cascade, 2024)