PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewAt once a jaunty history of psychedelics, and a fascinating lament that the double-pronged legacy of Nazi drug policy — zero tolerance and weaponization — so severely limited research into their medicinal properties.
Henry Hemming
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewAn exciting, at times astonishing read ... Hemming’s book is an evenhanded account of the clandestine murders that still haunt so many.
Earl Swift
PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewThe narrative is sometimes obscured by the intricacies of courtroom proceedings, but Swift shines a powerful light on the practice of debt slavery ... Swift also compellingly elevates the voice of one man who told the truth.
Teju Cole
RaveThe MillionsMost novels move beyond metaphor toward something resembling a plot; Teju Cole’s Open City does not. Rather, it is itself a single metaphor: aimless wandering as a reading experience ... Though the influence is visible, Cole refrains from copying the stream-of-consciousness style of Joyce or the minutely detailed explorations of Baker, and instead works with his own method that interweaves writing style with subject matter into the cloth of a familiar yet original protagonist ...isn’t so much a story as an inquiry, and Cole focuses on the means of action rather than its ends. From this rare perspective, the act of storytelling is accomplished through the details of smaller episodes, not a linear progression of scenes ... Cole’s achievement is that he has crafted a novel that needs no beginning, middle, or end because it so humbly imagines actual life: a string of events that follow each other without any perceptible rhyme or reason.
