I found it unsatisfying, despite his considerable expertise. By limiting his purview to political violence, Sprinzak disregards the country's growing nonpolitical violence . This is done brilliantly. Here, I believe, he is less successful. However, Bullitt-Jonas's endless referrals to the misery of her condition, not to mention her sentimental and overblown language .
Apte displays the gifts of a first-rate memoirist . . .
Maddox attempts to set an agenda for the coming decades, even centuries. . . . When he takes the longer view, Maddox makes a persuasive case that science has far to go. In his new graphic novel, Katchor excavates an even earlier metropolis . All the necessary elements are here, often dazzling in their invention, but only intermittently do they coalesce into tension-filled narrative . . . With greater attention to character detail it could perhaps have sustained its length.