Darryl Campbell, Author at The Millions

Eat, Drink, and Read Mary: The Millions Interviews Mary Roach

Darryl Campbell - 4.18.2013

I think digestion is another lurid, taboo subject -- particularly from the navel down. But even what goes on in the mouth is an unthinkable, revolting thing that no one wants to think about. There was a sense that this was right up my stinky little alley.

Darryl Campbell - 4.18.2013

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Essays Notable Articles

Is This Book Bad, or Is It Just Me? The Anatomy of Book Reviews

Darryl Campbell - 9.11.2012 | 38

You can critique the critics. You can be a meta-Michiko. Use this knowledge wisely.

Darryl Campbell - 9.11.2012 | 38

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Reviews

American Rust and Other Recession Fictions

Darryl Campbell - 11.4.2010 | 2

Besides getting the economic indicators right, Philipp Meyer understands that socioeconomic malaise and personal malaise are two sides of the same coin. He shows, through the eyes of each of the main characters, the human consequences of a sick economy.

Darryl Campbell - 11.4.2010 | 2

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Essays

Our Meals, Ourselves: A Short History of Food Writing

Darryl Campbell - 10.12.2010 | 5

“Tell me what you eat,” wrote Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, “and I will tell you what you are.”

Darryl Campbell - 10.12.2010 | 5

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Screening Room

Remembering Ken Burns’s The Civil War: A Documentary of Difficult Ideas

Darryl Campbell - 9.21.2010 | 1

By the standards of most “historical” documentaries, The Civil War lacks a certain testicular fortitude. It boasts neither flashy 3-D maps nor live-action re-enactments; what few live shots there are of battlefields were mostly taken after dusk, giving them a surreal, almost dreamlike quality. Its scoring is simple, its narration restrained. It is, well, rather bookish.

Darryl Campbell - 9.21.2010 | 1

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Essays

Oral History at the End of the World: ‘World War Z’ and its Cousins

Darryl Campbell - 8.26.2010 | 3

World War Z is not a shallow book by any means. But World War Z never quite manages the same level of moral pique as The Good War and the now obscure former bestseller Warday, a bleak speculative oral history of America after a nuclear attack.

Darryl Campbell - 8.26.2010 | 3

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Essays Notable Articles

Orwell and the Tea Party

Darryl Campbell - 7.26.2010 | 40

George Orwell never thought that his work would outlive him by much. After all, he considered himself “a sort of pamphleteer” rather than a genuine novelist. Yet sixty years later, Orwell endures, and I am not sure that this is a good thing.

Darryl Campbell - 7.26.2010 | 40

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