No Logo by Naomi Klein My rating: 5 of 5 stars I like to read or reread works from earlier eras, especially anything from the 1960s to the 90s that covers social and cultural issues. In this case, I read No Logo shortly after it was released and decided to revisit it. No Logo was …
Marcus Collins straddles the worlds of marketing and academia, as the head of strategy at Wieden + Kennedy while also a professor of marketing at the University of Michigan. In For The Culture, he shares a combination of scholarship and personal insights based on his experiences. You can read For The Culture as someone …
You Can’t Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together by Kat Timpf My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was not familiar with Kat Timpf before listening to this audiobook. That’s not really significant or surprising, as she’s best known as a Fox commentator and I …
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 60 Years Later It may seem strange to review a book, especially nonfiction, written over a half-century ago. The topics covered by Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), however, are just as relevant today as when she started covering them in the mid-20th century. In that respect, I find reading …
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Image is a modern classic of sociology first published in 1961. Anyone reading it today will probably be struck by how Boorstin identifies trends that are so prevalent today -especially the way society is fixated on …
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an ambitious, scholarly, and fair-minded look at a fascinating, broad, and contentious topic. Magic, of course, in this context, refers not to illusion or stage magic but to the …
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s hard to argue with the basic premise of The Comfort Crisis. There’s little doubt that a mostly sedentary lifestyle where we stare at screens most of the day and subsist on processed foods …
