March 11, 2025

New York Times calls ‘The Human Scale’ a “gripping…complex, deeply felt work.”

A review in The New York Times by Elliot Ackerman gives the new book high marks. 

Wright’s visceral depiction of the Oct. 7 attacks at the novel’s climax forces us to weigh the value of a single life against another, to engage in this conflict that has turned into a human scale. Given the passions raging around the current war in Gaza, Wright’s book is a gutsy one to write. To fail as a novelist and become a partisan of one side would read as a betrayal not only of the opposing side, but also of what the best literature does: It both asserts and reconciles our humanity through perspectives that may be far from our own. Wright succeeds in this complex, deeply felt work. He shows that if it is possible to save mankind one life at a time, as the Talmud and Quran affirm, then maybe it is also possible to save our humanity, one story at a time.

Read the full review at NYTimes.com ⟶