Apr 26, 2024 | Review
Charles Mann’s latest book The Wizard and the Prophet explores two scientists’ lives in order to uncover the roots of the debate over how to address our biggest environmental challenges. In this double-biography, Mann finds humor, adventure and a warning about how to...
Apr 26, 2024 | Review
Chatty ghosts, departed sons make Saunders’ contribution to the Lincoln canon worth its words. Abraham Lincoln commands such a presence in American literature, biography and cultural memory that it is difficult to imagine a new and unique contribution to the...
Apr 26, 2024 | Review
When the Ulrich Museum rolled out the (proverbial) shag carpet for a deep fake AI film and its making-of documentary One of the more cogent YouTube replies to In the Event of Moon Disaster takes the form of a quote from Orwell posted by user John Riskin: “Who controls...
Mar 22, 2024 | Review
I visited Wichita last fall when posters at Watermark Books advertised a book talk by Timothy Egan about his latest, A Pilgrimage to Eternity, at a church just a block away from the bookstore. I was excited to hear him speak; he wrote one of my favorite pieces of...
Mar 8, 2024 | Review
If you do not believe that a dusty collection of 16 traditional folk songs can be called a concept album, perhaps you underestimate this region’s deep well of banjo tunes about woodland creatures. Wolf Hunter is a concept album by virtue of its curation: the songs...
Mar 8, 2024 | Review
God Hates. Those are the first words I’ve seen the past few mornings, as this book sits on my coffee table. When I take it to read at the park or the library, I slip off the red, white and blue sleeve into my bag. There’s enough hateful rhetoric going around these...
