Reviews
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)
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)
World War II and the Fight for Freedom
Elizabeth Stice reviews 1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe by Peter Fritzsche (Basic Books, 2025)
Parting with parents: sweet or sorrow?
Don McCulloch reviews The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement by Eamon Dolan (Penguin Random House, 2025).
Capitalism in a bottle: what could go wrong?
Kimberly Bain reviews Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick by Murray Carpenter (MIT Press, 2025)
Not a Road to Nowhere
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks by Fred Haefele (Bison Books, 2025).
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)
Have Memoir and Geiger Counter, Will Travel
Elizabeth Stice reviews Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
There’s No Place Like…Home? Addressing Housing Insecurity in Five Acts
Kimberly Bain reviews There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (Penguin Random House, 2025)
Jane Austen: Defense against the Dark Arts?
Geoffrey Reiter reviews Jane Austen’s Darkness by Julia Yost (Wiseblood Books, 2024)
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)
California frenemies: an unsent letter
Michael Jimenez reviews Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik (Scribner, 2024)
The Poor Devils
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton (Belknap Press, 2025)
Look Over There
Elizabeth Stice reviews Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird by Mike Stark (Bison Books, 2025)
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)
A Fair Fight
Joel Tannenbaum reviews How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev (Hachette, 2024)
Profiles in Service
Elizabeth Stice reviews Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis et. al (Riverhead Books, 2025)
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)