MixedThe Los Angeles Review of BooksWeinberger’s deep erudition shows on the page with both the force and the subtlety of a sledgehammer. But beyond this display, there is beauty and strangeness in the fragments Weinberger has plucked from half-forgotten texts ... Weinberger’s best essays feel like portals into places or times of which you may have heard, vaguely, but which surprise you with their specificity ... Weinberger’s breadth of reference presents unique problems in reading. Though I’m fascinated by Weinberger’s essays, sometimes I feel bored when they linger or meander...Perhaps because of his desire to collect interesting information, Weinberger’s narratives often lose energy.
