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deecreatenola's review
4.0
Good collection. To Grieve is to Carry Another Time and Bed were both enjoyable.
samantha_shain's review
4.0
A few particularly spectacular essays in a volume with an equal number of duds. Definitely still worth it, but not as impressive as some prior collections. However, the first essay was unforgettable.
laurynreads's review
2.0
No shade, but Andre Aciman has the taste of an old white dude. I don’t care about old white dudes and their opinions. The best stuff in here was not by old white dudes.
eileen_critchley's review
3.0
***½
Some amazing standouts and some I personally would not have included. That’s usually the case, though, with these collections. I like that I can put this down and come back to it (this is why it takes me six months to read, and I will likely spend the next six months reading the short story collection). I read these every year, and will continue to do so.
{owned, paperback}
Some amazing standouts and some I personally would not have included. That’s usually the case, though, with these collections. I like that I can put this down and come back to it (this is why it takes me six months to read, and I will likely spend the next six months reading the short story collection). I read these every year, and will continue to do so.
{owned, paperback}
csaints's review
3.0
I enjoyed: The Other Leopold, Cosmic Latte, Breathe, Holiday Review, and How to Bartender. The rest were average.
danaray's review
It's hard to rate a collection that included pieces I both loved and abhored.
ostrowk's review
One of my least favorite collections in the series, I think. It felt stuffy and blinkered -- so different from the collection that Rebecca Solnit curated the year before. Have to admit I did love two essays by art critics: Peter Schjeldahl's on dying and A.O. Scott's on Sontag.