On the whole, this anthology, along with igniting discussions about sins of omission, will make for entertaining browsing.
Jonathan Lethem
Short Fuse Book Review: “Dissident Gardens” — Fantasy Meets Radical Politics
It’s hard to grasp how Jonathan Lethem assimilated all this material — historical and fantastic — and gave it new narrative life in Dissident Gardens, except by granting, to start with, his special genius for absorption.
Book Commentary: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Jonathan Lethem’s Influences
For all of his claims to being a subversive termite, Jonathan Lethem the puffy white elephant appears more often in this collection, trudging down a much safer, much happier road — leave the negativity to the snotty aristocrats.
