This is a short and easy read, though whether it’s worth picking up depends on one’s personal interests as all but 1 chapter are focused primarily on the history of Neanderthal archaeology more than on what they actually got up to. Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story The writing suffers from the detached ironic style common to a lot of contemporary American and British fiction, much of which details the interchangeable adventures of similarly tedious 20-35 year old financially independents, continuing to confirm that the English language in this century belongs first and foremost to South Asia and the Carribean.įurther reading: The Sellout, by Paul Beatty (for a rare example of a memorable 21st century American novel) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James (the latter 2 for proof that it’s still possible to write interesting fiction in English) If the idea of ‘surplus elites’ weren’t so self-evidently silly this book is for them. The ideas are interesting - 18th and 19th century bourgeois English literature concerns of property, husbands, and the position of women in society are transposed onto a 21st century white (by implication) bourgeois academia-adjacent setting wherein the various protagonists are bored and alienated, in one case quite literally from her own breasts. An entirely readable and entirely unmemorable collection of short stories.
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