Book Reviewing

Possibly the most famous book review, ever, was written by the young Irish wit and polemicist John Wilson Croker. ...

Books, stacks of books waiting to be read, are piled high in my office. Most of these books were sent to me by publicists or the attributed authors, a...

"Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self" by Danielle Evans The New York Times Evans follows girls and young women who are intelligent, gutsy and blac...

What American reviewers have missed is that satire and history are coming together for the first time in McEwan's career.

Stephen King recently said on CNN Money that books themselves aren't important since they're basically just a delivery system for a story. But they're much more than that: they're a canvas. I've been painting on mine for years.

Are the writers receiving the major awards and official recognition really the best writers today? Or are they overrated mediocrities with little claim to recognition by posterity?

What I tell my students is this: Don't read any living American writers. If you're going to read any American writers at all, only read dead ones. That way you can be sure you're not wasting your time.