My review of Katia Grubisic's What if red ran out and David O'Meara's Noble Gas, Penny Black is up at The Rover.

A little teaser:

AS EARLY AS 1807, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH LAMENTED, “The world is too much with us.” Now it is always with us, in its richness and calamity; we can’t get away from it; frequently overwhelmed by sheer superabundance, we can feel paradoxically diminished, cut loose, cut off. Read on…