Lisa Low’s “Replica” grapples with racial alienation and whiteness
Moving from childhood to adulthood, the author’s new poetry collection confronts and reconciles expectations in order to live authentically. The […]
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Writing Positive Reviews
Bill Marx hosted a mini workshop on writing critical reviews, held February 9, 2026. The attendees submitted negative and critical reviews, which Marx then analyzed, breaking down what does and does not work when writing critical reviews. In this follow-up, Bill Marx goes over what it takes to write a good, thoughtful positive review.
The Life-Changing Power of a Book Review Before Algorithms
Bill Marx shares his thoughts on the end of book and arts coverage at The Washington Post, originally published on The Arts Fuse.
Book World dies in darkness
Jeff Bezos has decided journalism isn’t worth his spare change–where does that leave literature? On Wednesday, The Washington Post laid off one-third
Writing Critical Reviews
Bill Marx hosted a mini workshop on writing critical reviews, held February 9, 2026. The attendees submitted negative and critical reviews, which Marx then analyzed, breaking down what does and does not work when writing critical reviews.
Douglas Bauer on Julie Otsuka
Harking back to a book that may be speaking to us now in new ways Julie Otsuka’s brilliant novel, The
How Book Reviews Raise Awareness
John Yunker of EcoLit Books talks on the importance of book reviews in raising awareness for social change.
The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure
Recent announcements at major publications have seen critics losing their positions, an ongoing shift that we should all be alarmed
What John Updike Got Wrong About Katrina
On art, criticism, and my drowned house Gazing at Central Park from the twentieth floor of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper,
The Wandering Fascist
On the New Translation of Maurizio Serra’s ‘Malaparte: A Biography’ There’s a passage in Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner