I Mean, I *LOVE* Yu Hua's Brothers
From the Library of Congress (via The Elegant Variation): On April 23, 2009, a federal district court in the southern Russian province of Dagestan issued an unprecedented ruling, ordering a journalist of a local newspaper to pay compensation in an amount equal to US$1,000 to a writer who did not like a review of his book ...
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The Ethics of Book Reviewing
Earlier this year Carlin Romano conducted a follow-up survey to his 1987 study on the ethics of book reviewing, the results of which are now available online.. (The data from the 1987 survey should be available shortly, and since it sounds like certain attitudes have changed over the past twenty years, we’ll definitely ...
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Changes at The Nation
According to PW, Adam Shatz, the book review editor at The Nation for the past four years is leaving for the London Review of Books. John Palatella—formerly of Columbia Journalism Review—will be taking over. Sounds like The Nation plans on keeping up its excellent commitment to book coverage. Some changes ...
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Short vs. Long
Personally, I think there’s a place for both—Ben Kunkel’s enormous review of Bolano in the new LRB is worth it, although I tend to prefer short reviews like in The Believer that whet my appetite for a book—but here’s a short (850-words) piece by Michael O’Donnell in defense of ...
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