PositiveThe New YorkerA book that blends Dalio’s biography and Bridgewater’s history into a closely observed investigation of how the Principles worked in practice ... The portrait he paints of Dalio does not depart dramatically from what the hedge-funder has readily revealed about himself.
Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman
PositiveBookforumThe book is foremost a polemic. McKenzie not only argues that crypto is overvalued, under-regulated, and rife with fraud; he makes the case that the entire ecosystem is itself a pyramid scheme ... It is, inevitably, a celebrity memoir, if one that distinguishes itself through McKenzie’s sense of humor ... The actor’s blunt sense of his own shortcomings lends him a candid charm and a convenient framing device. He uses his own entrée into the crypto community to steer the reader through its biggest scandals of the past two years ... Timely.
Kerry Howley
RaveBookforumHowley manages to push beyond partisan hack work to lay bare the flaws or biases in everyone’s read on Reality ... She illustrates the ways in which the raw data of someone’s life can be culled into a story they didn’t know they had told ... By the time Howley arrives at the story of Winner’s leak, she has methodically primed the reader to see Winner not as a scandal, but as merely one member of a special, if frequently irritating, demographic ... Howley’s capacity for incisive empathy extends to those whom most would dismiss as kooks.
Andrea Dworkin, Ed. by Joanna Fateman and Amy Scholder
PositiveDaily BeastThe cartoon Dworkin is well represented in the collection—it samples her two most famous polemics ... But Last Days at Hot Slit also includes works that ring truer to today’s cultural vernacular ... the collection also captures Dworkin’s more tender moments ... Last Days At Hot Slit pays homage to...Dworkin, to the anachronistic anti-porn persona everyone loves to hate, but along the way, it makes some much-needed jagged cuts.
