After attacking Michiko Kakutani in a Rolling Stone interview, Norman Mailer has himself come under attack by Dallas Morning News reporter Esther Wu, who is president of the Asian American… Read more »
In her column for The Book Standard, Jessa Crispin comments on Dave Eggers’ recent criticism of Neal Pollack and Eggers’ statement in that criticism that everyone can write a book… Read more »
Orlando Figes review of Yuri Slezkine’s The Jewish Century appears in the current issue of The New York Review of Books. The review describes the book as an important linking… Read more »
A favorable review by David Thomson of Donald Hall’s The Best and the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon appears in the current issue of the New York Observer. The… Read more »
“Longtime Kirkus Reviews editor Anne Larsen is leaving the magazine,” according to a brief Publishers Weekly report. She’s leaving soon, too, reports PW: “Larsen, who took over the post in… Read more »
Is it okay for a news outlet to cover books by its own reporters? Is it possible to do so objectively? What’s the likelihood of a bad review in such… Read more »
Russian satirist Vladimir Voinovich, who writes about the “complicity between the ruler and the ruled,” is profiled in the current issue of The New York Review of Books in an… Read more »
In his weekly “On Language” column for The New York Times, William Safire takes a look at the language of the “blurbosphere” (“coined on the analogy of blogosphere”). For example,… Read more »
Readers of The New York Times Sunday Book Review got a pleasant surprise yesterday when the newest issue included the announcement that a regular poetry column, “On Poetry,” will be… Read more »
Books and various other “objects of culture” are “becoming ever more distant” on the Internet, says Sarah Boxer, as “reviews of reviews” are taking over cultural blogs. In a New… Read more »