A review by notedhermit
The Other Walk: Essays by Sven Birkerts

4.0

I enjoyed about 80% of these, and didn't really hate any of them. I said to a friend that it's the sort of essay collection where I wasn't quite sure why I was reading them beyond just thinking Birkerts seems interesting. He tends to start off on thing A and meanders a bit, before finally settling in to thing Y and really narrowing in. The best essays are the ones that don't meander too far from the start and, to be honest, tended to be the shorter ones. I liked how he wrote about poetry even if I don't think I agreed with what he was writing.