Forced to smuggle thoughts of value into the small spaces between plot summary and biographical detail, reviewers accomplish next to nothing.

n+1 || June 23, 2011

If Woody Allen’s neurosis springs from someplace deep, Tina Fey’s is benign and mainly cosmetic.

The New Republic || April 19, 2011

In Kyung-sook Shin’s novel Please Look After Mom, family members suffer guilt and regret when their matriarch goes missing in a Seoul subway station.

The New York Times Book Review || April 3, 2011

A review of Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics

Boston Review || March/April 2011

William Paul Young’s bestselling novel about a father’s renewal of faith after suffering an unspeakable tragedy has spawned a tangle of lawsuits over royalties and even the book’s authorship.

The Los Angeles Times || July 13, 2010

Heeding Lady Gaga’s strangely empty song of herself

Bookforum || Dec/Jan 2011

Even before the Kindle, Amazon wielded enormous influence in the industry. Now it is positioned to control the e-book market and thereby the future of the publishing industry.

Boston Review || Nov/Dec 2010

Cordelia Fine has produced a witty and meticulously researched exposé of the sloppy studies that pass for scientific evidence in so many of today’s bestselling books on sex differences

The Times Literary Supplement || January 26, 2011