Reviews
Chess: A Microcosm of the AI Revolution
Brody Eldridge reviews The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Peter Doggers (Puzzlewright Press, 2024)
We Have a Substack: Won’t You Sign Up?
What is Substack? Why should you sign up for ours? What’s in it for you?
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)
To Spur a Virtuous Cycle
Sarah Selden reviews Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (Crash Course Books, 2025)
Read Dostoevsky With Us: Book Club for “The Idiot”
Sign up for five weeks of reading The Idiot with us!
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)
America’s Original Culture War
Matthew Sparacio reviews The Memory of ‘76: The Revolution in American Memory by Michael D. Hattem (Yale University Press, 2024)
Closing Time for Leonard Cohen
Michael Jimenez reviews Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius by Harry Freedman (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Out of the Shadows
Sarah Selden reviews The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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)
Why start a review, rather than something else?
Elizabeth Stice explains why a review is worth starting.
Reimagining, Restructuring, and Remembering Society
Samantha Wilber reviews The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tor Publishing Group, 2024)