Reviews
Johannes Vermeer, Provocateur: Risk and Courage in Dissent will be released in hardcover and trade paperback in May 2025 and be available at fine bookstores nationwide and through online retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound.
Reviews will be posted when available.
“Johannes Vermeer chose to live and paint in the vortex of battle. He witnessed class condescension, and he and his family were the subject of daily religious bigotry and political repression. Why is the academy so timid in seeing the risk and courage and dissent in his paintings?”
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Reviews of Neil Thomas Proto’s other works, including his literary award–winning books, Fearless: A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America (2019) and To a High Court: Five Bold Law Students Challenge Corporate Greed and Change the Law (2023), follow:
“Possibly it is the best solo play ever written.”
The Reckoning: Pecora for the Public – Drama in the Hood
“Proto’s “writing was surprisingly poetic….[H]aving seen the original production of a great play destined to go down in history…[that was] not only highly significant for our era, but for any era.”
The Reckoning: Pecora for the Public – Drama in the Hood
“The personalities he draws are sharp and ready-made for a Hollywood adaptation, and his insider’s look at how the Supreme Court works is fascinating in its own right, at once enormously informative and genuinely entertaining.”
To a High Court – Kirkus Reviews (Our verdict: GET IT), Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2023
“Proto writes with the candor, directness, thoroughness, and passionate pursuit of truth that also characterized Giamatti. His compelling biography is a shining achievement.”
Fearless: A. Bartlett Giamatti – Nick Kotz, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author