For a recent issue of the Spanish language journal, Cuaderno de Notas,Daniel Díez Martínez reviews Andrew Shanken’s The Everyday Life of Memorials. Click here to learn more about the book. Click the button to the left to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“At a time when the fight for the ‘story’ is questioning the symbols of our cities throughout the planet, Shanken’s essay is presented as a reading that is as necessary as it is fascinating, free of prejudices and vehement positions. ‘Monuments are slow in an age of speed, permanent in times of obsolescence and uselessness in a world dedicated to profit and a ruthless pragmatism,’ he writes in the conclusions.”