Reviews
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.
The Right Temperament: Leadership Lessons from George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower
Elizabeth Stice reviews 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)
"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 The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin, 2024)
Is social media the cause of the childhood anxiety epidemic?
Don McCulloch reviews The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin, 2024)
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
Michael Taylor reviews First Frost: A Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson
In Which Girls Save the Day
Cecelia Larsen reviews 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)
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)
Rethinking American Girlhood Through Relatable Girls’ Fiction
Dixie Dillon Lane reviews Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century by LuElla D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey’s