RaveJacobinRemarkable ... The conversations in the novel are digressive but unusually open, giving the book a theatrical feel. Lerner doubles down on this theatricality thematically too, threading references to performance and failure throughout until the plot literalizes them ... Transcription never stops asking whether technology corrodes authentic experience. But this ultimately leaves us with a different question: whether it can also carry what we most want to pass on ... Lerner seems to suggest something similar: that each act of transmission is also an act of creation — and that each generation may have the chance to be better than the one that came before.
