PositiveThe New RepublicPretty cool ... A hyperlinked hodgepodge of fixations, vivid memoir, and Wikipedia-esque snapshots ... With an all-consuming grandiosity befitting an Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo, he reckons with a world in which accepted truths are no longer sacrosanct ... Moments like this, told with an absurd, Germanic detachment and inscrutability, are a regular feature in Herzog’s writing ... Yet his prescriptions to save us from a potential post-truth world fall a bit flat.
RaveThe Washington PostBold ... Endearing ... Dark-but-poignant ... In Seven Women, the full sum of the parts eluded me ... Spare, punchy dialogue ... An ode to imagination ... Heartrending ... While these stories all probe strange new frontiers, the ones that land most satisfyingly deliver an emotional payoff worthy of the collection’s thematic preoccupations ... With each wry, understated sentence, sparkling with [Park\'s] love of wordplay and studded with in-jokes and literary references, you feel your amusement meter fixed at a setting of \'low, rumbly lol,\' with occasional spikes to \'lmao\' ... Despite the sense of longing that hangs over these stories, Park remains curious about what we might gain in an age of digital reconstitution.
