Reviews
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)
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)
Why start a review, rather than something else?
Elizabeth Stice explains why a review is worth starting.
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)
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)
This scepter’d isle… England that was wont to conquer others
Elizabeth Stice reviews Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire by Charlotte Lydia Riley (Harvard University Press, 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?
Elizabeth Stice reviews After all, there is No Finish Line by Actual Source Books (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)
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)
They Not Like Us
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin, 2024)
The Rising Temperatures Before the French Revolution
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton