My review of The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider is at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

“It’s difficult to convey just how strange life in the third decade of the third millennium has become,” Michiko Kakutani writes in “The Great Wave,” her cultural survey of the discontented present.

The insight is truthful (the times are strange) if broad (when were they not?). She takes on a vast theme in this propulsive book. But like the storming waters in the Hokusai print on the cover of “Great Wave,” the topic of chaotic change is so powerful it comes close to overwhelming the book…