Patrick W. Gallagher

Reviews

The New Influencers: A Marketer’s Guide to the New Social Media by Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin writes with an almost feverish, utopian optimism about the "endless possibilities" of Web 2.0 that becomes irritating. [23 September 2009]

My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

The get-on-with-it pace of this story makes the reader feel like a pallbearer at the novel’s own funeral. [10 June 2009]

Masters of Sex by Thomas Maier

Virginia Johnson, who helped revolutionize sexology without ever earning so much as a bachelor’s degree, is a perplexing, enigmatic figure. [25 May 2009]

Satire TV by Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey Jones, Ethan Thompson

More than just a category of TV comedy, satire is now “its own genre, and a thriving one at that.” [14 May 2009]

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman

The Cheney of 2000 had already decided that the VP’s role as a constitutional officer made him so hard to control, so impossible to discipline, that it might be the ideal job for him. [7 April 2009]