Apr 29, 2007
One ad not thought [the book reviews] could go downward, since they have always been modest, rathter conventional journals. Still, there had been room for a decline in the last few years and the opportunity has been taken. … [One] is not just somewhat mediocre; it has a strange perplexing inadequacy as it dimly comes forth week after week. … [Another] acts as a sort of hidden dissauder, gently, blandly, respectfully denying whatever vivacious interest there might be in books or in literary matters generally.—The Decline of Book Reviewing
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