Moan-ifesto about the particular woes of quarantine for an upper-middle-class parent of young children ... I would call [Sax's] new one 'OK,' 'perfectly fine' and 'not a complete waste of your time' ... The author can’t help sounding a little whiny ... The book is not entirely without adventure ... The trouble is that here in the fall of 2022, when most Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted, the revelation that such simple activities warm a digitally chilled soul feels as stale as our sourdough loaves. And some of Sax’s precepts, novel under our shared duress, now seem obvious or under-interrogated ... The Future Is Analog might have been better as that old-new phenomenon, a podcast. A brand extension writ antsy, it also seems to have suffered from an automated spellchecker.
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