Reviews

Elizabeth Stice 2/20/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/20/25

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)

Elizabeth Stice 2/18/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/18/25

Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Sarah Selden reviews The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 2/13/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/13/25

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)

Elizabeth Stice 2/6/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/6/25

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)

Elizabeth Stice 2/4/25 Elizabeth Stice 2/4/25

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)

Elizabeth Stice 1/30/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/30/25

For the Grieving Sentimentalist: Sally Rooney’s “Intermezzo”

Brody Eldridge reviews Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 1/29/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/29/25

Why start a review, rather than something else?

Elizabeth Stice explains why a review is worth starting.

Elizabeth Stice 1/28/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/28/25

Reimagining, Restructuring, and Remembering Society

Samantha Wilber reviews The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tor Publishing Group, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 1/23/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/23/25

A Promise Kept

Dana Dickson reviews An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 1/16/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/16/25

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)

Elizabeth Stice 1/14/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/14/25

Good Reader, Bad Reader: A Book for Both?

Sarah Selden reviews Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 1/9/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/9/25

“The American dream is calling: Won’t you pick up?”

Kimberly A. Bain reviews Drive: Scraping by in Uber’s America, One Ride at a Time by Jonathan Rigsby (Beacon Press, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 1/2/25 Elizabeth Stice 1/2/25

Florida on Film: The Florida Project

Paige Stanish reflects on The Florida Project (2017) and what it says about the Sunshine State.

Elizabeth Stice 12/31/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/31/24

Goodbye to all that?

William M Knoblauch reviews The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Elizabeth Stice 12/26/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/26/24

English Common Law and British Imperial Intention

Elizabeth Stice reviews An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy by Christian R. Burset (Yale University Press, 2023)

Elizabeth Stice 12/24/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/24/24

A Moveable Feast, A Press Release, and a Poem

A winter-themed excerpt from A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, a Christmas address from Winston Churchill, and two Christmas poems

Elizabeth Stice 12/19/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/19/24

Cormac McCarthy’s Walking Dead

Brody Eldridge reviews Manu Larcenet’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road (Abrams ComicArts, 2024)

Elizabeth Stice 12/12/24 Elizabeth Stice 12/12/24

Islands in the Stream

Joel Tannenbaum reviews Streaming Music, Streaming Capitalism (Duke, 2024) by Eric Drott, Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke, 2024) by Rob Drew, and High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape (Univ. North Carolina, 2023) by Marc Masters.