The New York Times Book Reviews 2000

I used to be a regular, sometimes even avid, reader of the Times Literary Supplement, but went off it because of its ever more academic and over‐specialist focus: academics writing for other academics in their own invented and pretentious jargon and as often as not pursuing their petty vendettas or making ultimately pointless points, all at the expense of the uninitiated reader. Unhappily, other UK book reviewing and literary journals all seem to have their own faults, very similar to those of the TLS, in seeming to be written by members of a coterie talking exclusively to other...