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lanikei's review
3.0
Read this last month and remember basically nothing at all from it, but also don't remember disliking it. I think I did skip a few of the essays though.
bibliokris's review
5.0
I've read these collections for the past 10 or 15 years now, and I always find my mind stretched, as well as opened to new topics. This collection had more female authors than male authors (1st time I can remember that, which I found refreshing)--the topics written about by women are usually not chosen by men, and as a woman, I appreciate that. Zadie Smith had an excellent essay in this collection, as well as in the 2010 collection, and I'm looking forward to reading her fiction. Reading this collection is usually one of the high points of my reading year.
saritagonzalez's review
4.0
Excellent collection of essays. Some will haunt me personally for a long time.
dinospider's review
5.0
What a superb collection of essays. While I found the subject matter almost universally interesting, I was even more amazed by the different creative forms the essays took. Very few were merely straightforward musings on a subject, many had incredibly creative constructions, helping to interweave seemingly unrelated topics.
bibliocyclist's review
4.0
"I grieve that grief can teach me nothing."
"Does a cyclops wear mascara?"
"Information underrepresents reality."
"Does a cyclops wear mascara?"
"Information underrepresents reality."
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