A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
What really exercises Doctorow is the monopolistic power Big Tech exerts in locking users into their services by means of exorbitant switching costs.
There is a direct line between the Oklahoma City bombing and the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021.
The Canadian situation is in stark contrast to other Western countries that have more robust copyright protections.
Ultimately, Breitweiser's psychology remains something of a mystery.
Zanes is familiar with the technical aspects of production, and his descriptions of how Nebraska was captured on tape provide some of the most fascinating moments in his book.
In describing fire – its properties and its behaviour – Vaillant is at his most enthralling.
A detailed and propulsive true crime story, Clara at the Door with a Revolver is also a work of social history.
The pith and substance of both books involves an interrogation of what is genuine and what is kayfabe.
The alternatives to the limited cost of his proposals should be morally repugnant to the vast majority of thinking and feeling people.
The tone Sharlet adopts for most of his book is plaintive, ironic, and not so much aghast at the existential state of his home country as sadly resigned.