PositiveThe Kenyon Review... cheerful ... a brisk tour through history’s most impressive attempts at downsizing ... Each chapter its own mini-portrait, the book’s structure reflects the power of the miniature to clarify much larger concepts ... Garfield’s episodic approach to his topic is largely successful. His playful, sometimes belittling language is just right for a book that considers, among its subjects, miniature depictions of The Simpsons characters on acid tabs. Yet Garfield’s analysis could sometimes use scaling-up. He shows us all that miniatures reveal, but what do they obscure?
