Reviews
The Poor Devils
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton (Belknap Press, 2025)
Look Over There
Elizabeth Stice reviews Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird by Mike Stark (Bison Books, 2025)
Catching a Vibe: How Spotify Licensed an Experience and Commercialized a Culture
Kimberly A. Bain reviews Mood Machine by Liz Pelly (First One Signal Publishers, 2025)
A Fair Fight
Joel Tannenbaum reviews How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev (Hachette, 2024)
Profiles in Service
Elizabeth Stice reviews Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis et. al (Riverhead Books, 2025)
Florida surfing, Florida stories
Elizabeth Stice reviews On a Rising Swell: Surf Stories From Florida’s Space Coast by Dan Reiter (University Press of Florida, 2025)
Living on a Dream
Elizabeth Stice reviews Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley by Brent Underwood (Harmony, 2024)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
A Promise Kept
Dana Dickson reviews An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster, 2024)