Reviews
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)
One toe over the line
Elizabeth Stice reviews Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders by Lewis Baston (Hodder, 2025)
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)
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Sarah Selden reviews The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom
Elizabeth Stice reviews What You’re Made For: Powerful Lessons From my Career in Sports by George Raveling and Ryan Holiday (Portfolio, 2025)
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)
Starving Dreamlessly or Sensemaking on the Western Front?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front by Alex Mayhew (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
For the Grieving Sentimentalist: Sally Rooney’s “Intermezzo”
Brody Eldridge reviews Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)
Reimagining, Restructuring, and Remembering Society
Samantha Wilber reviews The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tor Publishing Group, 2024)
A Promise Kept
Dana Dickson reviews An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
The many men, so beautiful!/ And they all dead did lie:/ And a thousand thousand slimy things/Lived on; and so did I.
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany The War by Robert Cowley (Random House, 2025)
Good Reader, Bad Reader: A Book for Both?
Sarah Selden reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner, 2024)
“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)
Florida on Film: The Florida Project
Paige Stanish reflects on The Florida Project (2017) and what it says about the Sunshine State.
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)
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)
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 two Christmas poems
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)