As a fan of the “concept of every thing by the lens of a single commodity” style, I knew I would really like Lizzie Stark’s Egg: A Dozen Ovatures. The timing could not be higher for a ebook in regards to the all of a sudden expensive staple. I don’t share Stark’s variant of feminism—she celebrates the egging of a statue of Margaret Thatcher and describes industrial egg harvesting for science as “the theft of a feminine physique’s labor”—however the ebook blends the private and the scholarly in interesting methods.
Maybe because of the pun within the subtitle, I unfairly assumed this could be one of many subject’s fluffier entries. As an alternative, from the “cosmic egg” of humanity’s creation myths to “house eggs” struggling in orbit, these 12 thematic chapters are dense and wealthy—like flan, however good.
