PanThe New Yorker[Broberg] attempts to provide the fullest possible account of his life yet fails to grapple with the fundamental question it raises: if categorization is crucial to making sense of the world, how should we classify Carl Linnaeus? ... Not, unfortunately, a pleasure to read ... The main problem with The Man Who Organized Nature, though, is not all the things in it we don’t need to know but all the things we need to know that aren’t in it.