The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in ...

Looking at the state of academic book reviewing, it’s possible, even probable, that we should jettison such reviews in favor of other ways of linking books back to the scholarly conversation.

A lawsuit filed in France against an editor based at NYU could “change the landscape of book reviewing in scholarly journals,” the defendant says.

Academic book reviews deserve to be taken seriously, and reviewers at all career stages should be encouraged to aim for innovation and creativity when writing them. Why not offer prizes in recognition ...

The conventional wisdom is that graduate students shouldn’t take time to write academic book reviews. There’s just not enough in it for them, the thinking goes. Now granted, I am not a career adviser ...

Choice magazine selected only 652 titles as an “Outstanding Academic Title” from more than 7,000 the magazine reviewed last year, out of 25,000 books submitted for review.