PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksWhat keeps Down Time from feeling like a retread is a new awareness of the wider world ... Don’t feel bad about enjoying Down Time, despite its often bleak outlook. The pleasure of this book comes from reading perfectly rendered sentence after perfectly rendered sentence. They’re hilarious sentences too.
Richard Beck
PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksBeck’s central argument is that our current moment, in all its horror, can best be explained by the militarism, xenophobia, and impunity that the War on Terror helped unleash, understood against the backdrop of the United States’ decline from economic hegemony.
