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I recommend giving The New York Review of Books a try. Their stable of guest writers is legendary, from J. M. Coetzee to Zadie Smith. They established a kind o
by atombender 3y ago
I recommend giving The New York Review of Books a try. Their stable of guest writers is legendary, from J. M. Coetzee to Zadie Smith.
They established a kind of genre of review where the review isn't so much reviewing the book as it is retelling it in magazine form. In many cases I've had no desire to read the book itself, because the review was so in-depth and comprehensive, not to mention well-written.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoI spent a couple of hours reading through reviews there on your suggestion - thank you! But I feel like I would only read those reviews after finishing the book myself as part of a post-read “imaginary book club session” because, as you say, it seems the reviews really do stand in for reading the books!