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Jean McGarry's avatar

I'm reading Edmund Wilson's collected book reviews and essays from the 20s and 30s. There's no one, at present, on the scene as discerning, incisive, and as elegant a writer as EW. Many of his reviews were for *The New Republic*.

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Jen Howard's avatar

This is a terrific look back at the last 20+ years of book reviewing. (I left Book World in 2005, during the "convulsive book review contraction" you describe so well. Glad to see the section revived and expanded!)

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