Residual Media comprises nineteen scholarly essays examining our relationships with media technologies that no longer could be characterized as ‘mainstream.’ Editor Charles Acland does a superb job of laying the foundation for these essays in an introduction that not only previews the work of each author, but builds a sophisticated, thoroughly researched, and theoretically unifying argument about society’s fascination with media that have fallen out of use. He argues persuasively that residual media give important clues as to who we are and what we value in the present.