Reviews
Coming Back to You: Mark Kinzer’s Jewish Christian Scriptures
Stones the Builders Rejected: The Jewish Jesus, His Jewish Disciples, and the Culmination of History by Mark S. Kinzer (Cascade, 2024), reviewed by Michael Jimenez
Healthy Otters, Healthy Planet
Sam Wilber reviews Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World by Miriam Darlington (Tin House 2024)
The Book Twain Couldn’t Write
Sarah Selden reviews Percival Everett's James (Doubleday, 2024)
The Why of Us
Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Stice explains why a review is a valuable thing and why Belinsky is our best example of a critic.
Interview with Diego Alejandro Waisman, author of “Sunset Colonies: A Visual Elegy to South Florida’s Mobile Home Communities”
In order to keep "one foot in Florida, one foot in the life of the mind," we will be regularly featuring interviews with Florida authors.
The Right Temperament: Leadership Lessons from George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall by Josiah Bunting III (Knopf, 2024) and Becoming Eisenhower: How He Rose From Obscurity to Supreme Allied Commander by Michael Lee Lanning (Stackpole Books, 2024), reviewed by Elizabeth Stice
"What Can We Know of Other People?" Zadie Smith's “The Fraud” and New Sincerity
Brody Eldridge reviews Zadie Smith's The Fraud (Penguin, 2023)
They Not Like Us
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin, 2024)
Human anxiety or human nature?
Kimberly A. Bain reviews Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation
Is social media the cause of the childhood anxiety epidemic?
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, reviewed by Don McCulloch
Life on Mars
Grace Mackey reviews The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin, 2024)
Turning Points in the U.S.A.
Michael Jimenez reviews Turning Points in American Church History by Elesha Coffman
In Between Florida and Family
Sam Wilber reviews The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich (Little, Brown & Company 2024)
Reflecting the past in the present
Craig Johnson’s First Frost: A Longmire Mystery reviewed by Michael Taylor. What does the newest book add to the existing narrative and how does it consider the passage of time?
In Which Girls Save the Day
Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol (First Second, 2024) and Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg (Harry N. Abrams, 2024) reviewed by Cecelia Larsen.
The Talented Mr. Swanson
A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson, reviewed by Taylor Gaede. What can we learn from the newest installment in the Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner thriller series?
Bring us M.A.R.S*! *More Actual Research and Science
Matthew Sparacio reviews A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin, 2023)
