Are review-bots the only way to avoid conflicts of interest in book reviewing?
In a wonderful review of two books on automation in this Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, the writer Barbara Ehrenreich wondered how well robots would be able to handle… Read more »
Some VIDA numbers are improving. What else should we count?
That time of year is here again: the VIDA count is up for 2013. You probably already know that VIDA counts the bylines and reviews of various publications and presents… Read more »
The Critical Flame will dedicate one year to women writers and writers of color
The Critical Flame, a literary journal founded in 2008, announced that it will spend one year focusing its review coverage on women writers and writers of color, beginning in May.… Read more »
What does it mean that the New York Times Book Review is no longer listing bestseller prices?
Having recently taken the helm of the New York Times Book Review, Pamela Paul recently charted her first series of course corrections. Most curious among them: book prices are no longer to be printed… Read more »