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Review · Photography
Davis turns his family's phone pictures from a month across the American West into a picture book whose facing pages often tell you exactly how each shot was taken.
Beneath an Endless Sky: The Photographs by Dennis W. Davis
Review · Photography
Davis pairs his own pictures from a year and a half in Vietnam with short passages from his memoir, and the quiet pages hit harder than the postcard ones.
Across the Quiet Earth: The Photographs by Dennis W. Davis
Review · Travel Memoir
Dennis W. Davis's memoir of twenty pandemic months in Vietnam is too long and too fond of its adjectives, and it earns its length anyway, as the record of a foreigner being let in.
Across the Quiet Earth by Dennis W. Davis
Review · Travel Memoir
Dennis W. Davis drives his wife and three daughters across the American West for 28 days and writes it up as a cook would: hungry, exact, funny, and a little too fond of the roadside plaque.
Beneath an Endless Sky by Dennis W. Davis
Review · Memoir and Essay
Dennis W. Davis rebuilt a weekend's machine-drafted book on his own journals and a year of building with the machine, and the result is uneven, repetitive in its second half, and unusually honest about its own making.
The Superposition of Us by Dennis W. Davis