Reviews round-up
The New Dark Ages
by James Marriott
2 of 4 critics positive
7 reviews: 2 positives, 1 mixed, 1 pan; 3 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Positive
Read the review ↗“lucid, well-written antidote for the distracted public”
James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages: A lucid, well-written antidote for the distracted public
Positive
Read the review ↗“heartfelt lament for and celebration of books”
An elegy on the death of reading
Mixed
Read the review ↗“may not be sufficiently pessimistic”
Opinion | A grim prognosis for the post-literate future
Pan
Read the review ↗“grandiose but superficial defence of reading”
The New Dark Ages by James Marriott review – a grandiose but superficial defence of reading
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗The New Dark Ages by James Marriott — reading in the age of distraction
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