A review by blairlovesbooks
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

Each section got progressively better as it went, but the section on Çatalhöyük felt like it was written before Newitz had fully codefied her central thesis and she never looked back. The epilogue was pretty grim - instead of tying together threads from each chapter she kinda just went “welp, society is doomed I guess.” It was also clear that Newitz is a journalist, not a historian, as her citations could charitably be called inconsistent. The portions on Cahokia and Angkor were fascinating, however; and the information in general was interesting.