March 9, 2007

A Call for a New Weekly Book Review

Is American book reviewing in crisis? Yes, the historian Jeffrey Herf charges in a cri de coeur on The New Republic's Open University blog. Space for book reviews is limited, the best-known reviews often slight university presses in favor of trade publishers with hefty advertising budgets, and review essays can become platforms for ideologies. "The time has come for an entrepreneur or entrepreneurs to get together with fair and distinguished editors to create a new weekly book review," Herf

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