Reviews

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Not a Road to Nowhere

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks by Fred Haefele (Bison Books, 2025).

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A Contest for the Ages: Deciphering Cuneiform

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

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Have Memoir and Geiger Counter, Will Travel

Elizabeth Stice reviews Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

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History underfoot and on display

Elizabeth Stice reviews Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets by Dorothy Armstrong (St. Martin’s Press, 2025)

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Our first anniversary

A reflection on our first anniversary by Elizabeth Stice

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The Poor Devils

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton (Belknap Press, 2025)

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Look Over There

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

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Profiles in Service

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

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Florida surfing, Florida stories

Elizabeth Stice reviews On a Rising Swell: Surf Stories From Florida’s Space Coast by Dan Reiter (University Press of Florida, 2025)

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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)

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The Present of the Past

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray (Belknap Press, 2024)

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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)

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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)

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One toe over the line

Elizabeth Stice reviews Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders by Lewis Baston (Hodder, 2025)

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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)

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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)

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Why start a review, rather than something else?

Why a review is worth starting.

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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)

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