AUTHENTICITY: RECLAIMING REALITY IN A COUNTERFEIT CULTURE, by Alice Sherwood (Mudlark, $37.99)
Authenticity, or the assumption of it, underpins so much. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?
About 20 years ago, Alice Sherwood discovered that one of her friends, someone she thought she knew well, had been revealed to be a Walter Mitty-esque imposter. We’ve all likely encountered