When done well, book reviewing can offer a foretaste of the Great Feast to come This essay kicks off a forum on the value of book reviews that will continue over the next three Mondays. One bold premise behind this forum is that book reviews are good for promoting healthy democratic discourse. We as a society can have better and more peaceful conversations about even the most divisive and controversial of topics if we center these conversations around good books. As so, … [Read more...] about FORUM: Why Review Books?
John Wilson
John Wilson is Contributing Editor at the Englewood Review of Books and Senior Editor at the Marginalia Review of Books.