Reviews
The Dangers of a Single Story
Sarah Linville reviews Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf, 2025).
Attention! At Ease! Florida’s Military Role Preceded Disney World
Roger Chapman reviews State of War: A History of World War II in Florida by Anthony D. Atwood (University Press of Florida, 2025)
Fatalism and Family Life
Zoë Kaufmann reviews Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside (New Directions, 2025)
A smoke-ringed mirror
Elizabeth Stice reviews House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home by John T. Edge (Crown Publishing, 2025).
It’s Complicated
Elizabeth Stice reviews Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis, 2025).
The Dunnes: Literary Family Royalty
Michael Jimenez reviews The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne (Penguin, 2024).
A Feral Child and the Fringes of Human Knowledge
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Books, 2025).
Composing the Revolution Across the Atlantic
Matthew J Sparacio reviews The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin (Harvard University Press, 2025).
Illustrated Breadcrumbs
Brody Eldridge reviews Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (Scribner, 2025).
Don’t Buy This Jacket… Do Read This Book?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
What are we doing here?
Brody Eldridge reviews Never Flinch by Stephen King (Scribner, 2025).
From the Stacks of Yesteryear
From the Stacks: Nadya Williams wishes we had some of the works of Tacitus that are permanently out of print.
A new book about Kant: not imperative, but interesting reading
Elizabeth Stice reviews Kant: A Revolution in Thinking by Marcus Willaschek (Harvard University Press, 2025)
Cherry Blossoms, Pro Wrestling, and Stonewall Jackson: The American Dream?
Sarah Selden Linville reviews The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong (Penguin, 2025).
Katabasis: Impossible to Pronounce, Enjoyable to Read
Elizabeth Stice reviews Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager, 2025).
All is fair in love, war, and fashion: from court fashion to fast fashion
Saija Wilson reviews Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder (Yale University Press, 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)
From the Stacks: Dreams about H.M. The Queen
A “From the Stacks” piece by Joel Tannenbaum about DREAMS ABOUT H.M. THE QUEEN and other members of the Royal Family by Brian Masters.