Book Reviews: 'Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age' and 'Mark Twain'

Book reviews: 'Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age' and 'Mark Twain'

'Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age' by Amanda HessAmanda Hess is "exceptionally skilled at noticing things worth seeing," said Meghan Cox Gurdon in The Wall Street Journal. In her new book, a hybrid of memoir and social critique, the New York Times critic at large recounts what it's like to experience pregnancy and childbirth in our wired age, and she paints an amusing but unsettling picture. Early in her journey to motherhood, she …

What we get wrong about Mark Twain - 3 Quarks Daily

Michael Dirda in the Washington Post: It’s said that when “War and Peace” was finished and about to be published, Tolstoy looked at the huge book and suddenly exclaimed, “The yacht race! I forgot to put in the yacht race!” At 1,174 pages, Ron Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is essentially the same length as “War and Peace,” but seemingly nothing has been overlooked or left out. Normally, this would be a signal weakness in a biography — shape and form do …

Book reviews: ‘Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age’ and ‘Mark Twain’

‘Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age’ by Amanda Hess Amanda Hess is “exceptionally skilled at noticing things worth seeing,” said Meghan Cox Gurdon in The Wall Street Journal. In her new book, a hybrid of memoir and social critique, the New York Times critic at large recounts what it’s like to experience pregnancy and childbirth in our wired age, and she paints an amusing but unsettling picture. Early in her journey to motherhood, she…