Reviews
Interview with Keith Honeycutt, author of “The Storm”
An interview with Keith Honeycutt, author of The Storm: An Antebellum Tale of Key West, which brings us a previously unpublished novella by an early Florida female author (University Press of Florida, 2024)
The Best of All Possible Biographies?
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days by Michael Kempe (W.W. Norton & Co., 2024)
Just Read It?
After all, there is No Finish Line by Actual Source Books (2024), reviewed by Elizabeth Stice
Interview with Andy Huse, author of “From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa”
Interview with Andy Huse, author of From Saloons to Steakhouses: A History of Tampa (University Press of Florida, 2024)
The Trees that Outlast and Tending One's Own Garden in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's The Bullet Swallower
Brody Eldridge reviews The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
Mofro, Olustee, and the Blues of Lost Places
Tom Chesnes reviews the new album Olustee by JJ Grey and Mofro (2024)
The Worst Journey in the World: Now Illustrated
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel. Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down Graphic Novel adapted by Sarah Airress adapted from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Letter Better Publishing, 2024)
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
