Archive - MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

Narrative Control: How Stories Dominate Our Lives

Reviewing Alissa Wilkinson’s ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine’

Jun 14 •

Machines Don’t Believe. Is That Our Secret Advantage?

Why Belief—and Especially Disbelief—Might Remain Uniquely Human

Jun 11 •

Prompted: Should Students Use AI, and How?

When ChatGPT Writes Better Than Your Average Term Paper, Maybe the Problem Isn’t the Student—or Even the Tool

Jun 9 •

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Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal)

When the Rules No Longer Apply

Reviewing Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’

Jun 7 •

A Brief Argument for Short Books

7 Reasons to Love Short Books—Plus 16 Slender Specimens to Try on for Size

Jun 4 •

May 2025

Bookish Diversions: Reading as Help for Living

Making Decisions, Novels as Practice, Theaters for Self-Reflection, Dark Books, Measuring ‘Narrativeness,’ More

May 31 •

Open Thread: Your Summer Reading?

What’s on Your List for the Sultry Months? Here’s a Look at Mine

May 28 •

Books Before Print, Paper, and Pixel

The Art and Function of Medieval Manuscripts: Reviewing ‘The Lindisfarne Gospels,’ ‘Imperial Splendor,’ and ‘Performing the Gospels in Byzantium’

May 24 •

Bookish Diversions: Not Done with Didion

Psychiatry Notes, Ethics of Posthumous Publishing, Among the Archive, More

May 22 •

6 Enjoyable Ways to Read Classic Novels (or Pretty Much Anything)

Intimidated? Distracted? Bored? Need Another Way In?

May 17 •

The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution

Fiction Is Fading, Kids Are Skipping, Parents Are Scrolling. What to Do?

May 14 •

Holy Whiskers! That Curious Time Every Pope Wore a Beard

Smooth Operator: Pope Leo XIV Says Blessed Are the Barefaced, but Pontiffs Weren’t Always Hairless

May 12 •

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