PositiveNew York Journal of BooksThunberg is a force, partially by virtue of her...strength of conviction coupled with raw intelligence ... No One Is Too Small is composed of 16 short speeches. While there is clear overlap between them, each carries a unique core trope ... These tropes are penetrating in their directness and simplicity. But what truly animates them is their ability to spark counterfactual thought, and therein lies their potency.
Adam Minter
PositiveThe New York Journal of BooksThe book has two great strengths. The first rests in its careful research coupled with an almost ethnographic sensibility. Minter immerses himself in the places and people who provide the social lubricant for the flow of reused material across the globe. We hear their stories and get to know them with some intimacy. The second strength is its cross-cultural and comparative orientation. We see how the secondhand business works itself out in places like Canada, Japan, Mexico, India, China, the Philippines, West Africa ... tells an important story about consumerism gone wild, the complex industry that has grown around its detritus, and how we can push back on an entrenched culture of disposability. Our current cycles of production, consumption, and disposal are clearly highly unsustainable. Hopefully the book will make readers far more conscious, intentional, and reflexive about their consumer-disposer behavior.
Charles King
PositiveNew York Journal of BooksCharles King has written a sweeping and dynamic history of Americanist anthropology through its origins, shaky institutionalization, and creation of ideas that upended common wisdom and challenged the dominant power structure. What emerges is a story of a discipline that was, at once, deeply academic, applied, and activist. It was a revolution.
