PositiveThe New RepublicEqual parts mystery, thriller, and existential inquiry, Phillips’s book evokes the menace of the mundane ... The Beautiful Bureaucrat walks a thin line between the real and the surreal ... The Beautiful Bureaucrat intentionally or not taps into contemporary anxieties around Big Data: how (and why, and by whom) the minutia of our lives is captured, and to what ends ... The Beautiful Bureaucrat asks uneasy questions about work and life, love and power, and where the whole enterprise of one’s own small life is swiftly headed.
