"Bread and Milk is not a typical food memoir. Of course, Ramqvist does mine her childhood memories for gustatory pleasures. She does recall her own Proustian madeleine (a savory rice pudding). But the book doesn’t rhapsodize about food, nor does it build toward personal liberation—or, for that matter, a successful restaurant career. The word 'nourish' is used sparingly."

-Words Without Borders

"Books about books tend toward the sappy. They often make the reductive, moralizing case that reading is a form of salvation, a surefire route to empathy. It is a unique pleasure to read a novel of bibliophilia that eschews this mode entirely."

-Los Angeles Times

"I observe the en-smallening of celebrity noses on my phone, a phenomenon I’ve been tracking for years, and wonder how much tinier they can get and still take in air. Successive rhinoplasties have become the norm, so, is keeping one’s own nose now a radical act? Maybe. My heart did soar watching Sabrina Impacciatore in Season 2 of White Lotus. Now that is an interesting face! I thought, like a proud sister."

-Dirt

"Sentiments that are meant to convey sensitivity and show how heartrending readers find scenes of drug use have the opposite of their desired effect, revealing instead a pearl-clutching squeamishness about addiction. They lay bare the division that remains in our society — albeit one ever-weakened by the continued proliferation of elephant-grade opioids — between those who know this disease and those who do not." 

-Los Angeles Review of Books

"We’re living in a moment of depleted patience for the beleaguered man. Drinking and womanizing got you down? Boo hoo. Wife left you after years of emotional neglect to care for your children alone? Cry me a river. So it is with some skepticism that a woman book critic in the year 2022 picks up a novel called “Men in My Situation” about an aloof, sullen, recently divorced man approaching middle age."

-Los Angeles Times

"As riot grrrls, we fancied ourselves revolutionary, but instead we got an early lesson in Adorno’s theory of the culture industry. Our rebellion was swiftly co-opted. It scarcely stood a chance against the machinery of capitalism, which handily absorbed our dissent and sold it back to us, pirating even our aesthetic, the crooked collages and mottled typewriter font of our zines, which became visual motifs of the era of corporate Girl Power that followed. (From there, it was but a hop, skip, and a jump to today’s treacherous girlboss.)"

-Poetry Foundation