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The manner of NYRB book reviews -- essays often covering 'n' related books on a given topic, are also more specific to NYRB's formula. Form and function... Th

The manner of NYRB book reviews -- essays often covering 'n' related books on a given topic, are also more specific to NYRB's formula. Form and function... The length of their reviews & essays isn't common among other, similar lit rags.

PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
The other distinguishing feature of those "reviews" is that they often take the form of "Author A.B wants to write an essay about X. Here are 3 or 4 books somehow related to X that A.B will comment on during the course of their essay."