MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewThere is something unconvincing about turning these pieces into a topical anthology ... This feeling deepens when you realize that some of the book’s sermonizing material about how Osnos’s hometown lost its Yankee propriety also appeared in his opprobrium-rich 2021 book Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury ...
The Haves and Have-Yachts is journalistic: descriptive, not prescriptive. It’s a prestige romp in the aloof mode of The New Yorker —a style that keeps passions at a minimum ... Memorable.