John Green’s grown-up book?

? UNDER THE LAMPLIGHT-

The Anthropocene Reviewed, penned by John Green, is a book that offers an ambitious review of our times and is a clear deviation from his previous writing, like teen hit and bestselling novel-turned-movie The Fault in our Stars. In this collection of essays, Green seeks to write as himself, rather than in code through multiple protagonists that fans often conflate him with, he said in an interview. And, as himself, he offers his readers a looking glass through which we can examine with wit, introspection, and humor, an era that is inundated with a continuous and inordinate flow of change that makes it difficult to stay afloat. In the face of such overwhelming immenseness, Green tackles what he perceives to be the hallmarks of our times and reviews them. This is how we come to see the author rate the Internet a 3 out of 5, the Plague a single star, and Liverpool’s “You'll Never Walk Alone” earning a 4.5 out of 5.