Man and Machine

April 9th, 2026 | 9 min read

Joel J. Miller. The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future. Prometheus Books, 2025. $34.95. 344 pp.

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Lucy S. R. Austen

Lucy S. R. Austen is glad to live in a world in which there are books. Her writing has appeared at publications including Christianity Today and the Oxford Centre for Life Writing. She is the author of Elisabeth Elliot: A Life and the forthcoming middle-grade biography, The Story of Elisabeth Elliot: The Missionary Who Followed God into the Unknown.

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Man and Machine

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