RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewNavalny’s wardens permitted him to keep some notebooks, and he began to document, in meticulous detail, life behind bars ... Navalny’s indefatigable goodness is all the more poignant.
Simon Shuster
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewIntimate ... While Shuster’s admiration for his subject is palpable, he never tips over into hagiography.
Colin O'Brady
PositiveThe New YorkerThe obvious question is: Why do this to yourself? A charitable reading would credit O’Brady for testing the limits of human potential and furnishing us with a rich metaphor for chasing our dreams. A cynic might see naked ambition and a competitiveness verging on the colonial ... In itself, O’Brady’s story is neither cautionary nor inspirational; it’s a Rorschach test for one’s own character and aspirations. To what extremes would you go, and how much punishment would you endure, in the service of a single goal? If there is a lesson, it’s that the path of the reduced man can lead to triumph, or madness, or both.
