PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe book is full of tension and cliff-hangers, and all that suspense makes for a welcome foil to McCullough’s subject ... Like most sports biographies, The Last of His Kind trends toward the hagiographical. McCullough seems to know that, though, and he cleverly uses that critical cliché to his advantage by fusing his telling of the hero’s journey with Kershaw’s adopted faith ... For some, there will be a fluent predictability in all this pressure ... Still, for the concentric circles of baseball fans and Dodger diehards who will make up the majority of McCullough’s readers, annotated play-by-plays like this are catnip.
Tricia Romano
RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksWonderful ... A vital, comprehensive piece of media scholarship about one of the most influential outlets of the last century. It’s also fun as hell to read.
Kyle Chayka
PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksNearly vibrates when Chayka brings his background as an art critic and curator to the fore ... The simplest way to think of them is as machines designed to be very good at guessing the order of things based on the libraries of information they’ve been trained on ... Whether people can be convinced to exit their infinite scrolls is still an open question, though. Filterworld’s place in the growing bibliography of modern internet criticism sits somewhere between schematic and critique.
