“[Seigel is] one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued cultural critics.” — New York Times Magazine
“A fluent and culturally voracious critic, Siegel writes a mean and memorable sentence.” — Financial Times
“A wizard of macho outrage.” — The Economist
“The scourge of literary cant.” — Ross Douthat, New York Times Book Review
“A rare bird among American critics . . . boisterous and erudite.” — London Times Literary Supplement
“One of the heroic few.” — The Guardian
“A brilliant indictment of what’s wrong with today’s Internet.” — Boston Globe
“An intriguing examination of the power and precision of words.” — Kirkus Reviews