Archive - MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

The Bible Is Weirder than We Usually Realize

A Textual Romp Through One of the World’s Better Known Classics

Jul 16 •

Open Thread: Big-Ass Classic Novels?

Help Me Pick 12 for Next Year

Jul 14 •

Kurt Vonnegut’s Ambivalent War on AI

Reviewing His Prescient Debut Novel ‘Player Piano’

Jul 12 •

Open Thread: Books that Define Your Worldview?

If You Had to Select Just 4, What Would They Be?

Jul 9 •

Bookish Diversions: Thomas Jefferson, Bookworm

Jefferson’s Complex Character, His Bookishness, His Writing, Sources of Inspiration, More

Jul 5 •

Do You Want What You Want? Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’

Reviewing a Classic Story of Divided Affections

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Note to Self: Watch Your Mouth

When We Don’t Speak Our Minds: Reviewing Glenn C. Loury’s ‘Self-Censorship’

Jun 28 •

Whatever Happened to the Semicolon?

Why Punctuation Is Less About Rules and More About Economics

Jun 25 •

Shadow Texts: Using AI to Teach Reading and Writing

How One Technology Informs Another

Jun 23 •

The Human Comedy of ‘The Betrothed’

Reviewing Alessandro Manzoni’s Beloved Italian Classic

Jun 21 •

Chickens? A Bigger Deal Than You’d Guess

Birds in Books: Chick Lit, Plus Sy Montgomery’s ‘What the Chicken Knows’ and Charles Willeford’s ‘Cockfighter’

Jun 18 •

Narrative Control: How Stories Dominate Our Lives

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

Jun 14 •

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