Lucid and entertaining —yet despairing ... Less a rant against art’s monetization than it is a despairing look at the enthusiastic embrace of selling out ... [A] grumpy tone ... Marx’s key point about the bland sameness of art in 2025 will resonate with anybody who has a hard time remembering when a new song made them perk up, pay attention and realize they have never heard anything like that before.
Ambitious but flat-footed hot take ... Marx's book reads as if written by someone who gets most of his culture online even as he decries the Internet repeatedly ... Beyond these celebrities, the two significant sections on women in this century are about—I kid you not—Trad Wives and Girls Gone Wild ... He seems ill-equipped to interpret work made by those outside his own demographic, which surely contributes to his belief that culture has lost its way.
