THERE seems little point in raging publicly at the ills of modern life unless you can suggest a cure. Michael Foley‘s book is an amusing gambol through science, religion, philosophy and literature in search of strategies for fulfilment in a contemporary culture that seems designed to resist them.
His distaste for the way other people behave makes the crumbs of comfort he offers up hard to swallow. Foley takes issue with almost everything the 21st century has thrown at him, from the cheeriness of once famously grumpy Parisian waiters to the audacity of his online book store in recommending…
