Profoundly Superficial: Observations on a Net Zero Culture by David Solway

David Solway is one of this generation’s leading chroniclers—and one of its most penetrating analysts and humorists.

In this collection of timely, elegantly written, and often strikingly astute essays, Solway’s moral imperatives are the foundations of each chapter. With a broad palette of subjects that he works like some epistolary Chagall or Mondrian, Solway juggles these items with finesse: snobby artists abusing art on the public dole, Donald Trump, Feminists, Hockey, Stephen Hawking, the ins and outs of being in and out of academic philosophy; the corruption and collapse of western academics; the viciously biased and inaccurate fake media coverage of Israel, and the false compassion of the political left, just to name a few.

A realist and pragmatist, Solway relies on his excellent eye for detail, his insightful thinking process, and his gift with words and stories to present this important and entertaining collection of prose (with some prose about poetry, too, for good measure). You will be challenged and entertained—and you’ll learn some things, as well.

David Solway is a rare writer with exceptional authorial and observational skills. The result is a very special collection of essays that will stay in your thoughts long after the last page is devoured.

Advance praise:

David Solway is one of the most insightful, perceptive, eloquent and compelling writers of our time. This is not a matter of opinion, or dispute. Anyone who knows his work, as everyone should, knows that he far outstrips even the most widely touted ‘intellectuals’ and writers of our age. If free societies survive and free people in them are reading books from our sorry and absurd age, they will find in David Solway one of the most thoughtful, articulate, and consistently engaging observers of our contemporary scene. If you haven’t read him, it isn’t too late. This book is your place to start.
— Robert Spencer, author of The History of Jihad and The Critical Qur’an

Solway is a man of many parts—poet, scholar, teacher, chess enthusiast, education theorist and literary critic. Hopefully, readers will heed his message and “awareness will precede action and recollection will influence the future.”
—Janet Levy, American Thinker

This is a no-nonsense text—a masterpiece of concision, yet one that is comprehensive in its coverage, and an elegant and droll chunk of prose.
—Bruce Bawer, Arts & Opinion

Solway has mastered the art of leaping from the mundane to the sublime, always in such a way that we are startled into a realization of strangeness.
— Russell Potter, Rhode Island College