Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone?
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The state of book criticism is in crisis, so it only makes sense that one of the 7 remaining full time critics should condescend to us. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Yeah, NY Times, where HAVE all the book reviews gone? You used to run one six days a week in the daily paper, now there are none. That wasn't AI's fault, that was the conscious decision by your editors. It takes some gall for you to run an essay with this title. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Some thoughts on this piece, which is - as @rumaan.bsky.social called it — claptrap. [a mini-🧵] — These days, the NYT publishes way more "best books" (chosen from the handful they actual review) and "let us help you find" listicles than actual book reviews. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
It seems odd to write this and not mention Substack, newsletters, and BookTok (even if to dismiss them)
Proud to be "someone" in Dwight Garner's latest. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Naturally I agree with this piece & also mourn Book World but it's vital to note that the decline of local books coverage is a byproduct of the decline of local news full stop; the book conversation Garner laments is being carried on, however transitionally, elsewhere www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
must-read from dwight garner [gift link]
Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Really feeling this (by Dwight Garner). It was depressing to page through Huxtable's archive and see dozens of reviews from papers all over the country -- *for books about architecture.*
NYT declined to review GANDOLFINI, even though LAT, WSJ, and several others did
The irony of the times publishing this claptrap and also promoting their “best books of the year so far” in APRIL is almost beyond parody
Great piece by Dwight Garner. The book does what nothing else can. It can immerse, explain, surprise, and take us on a journey that otherwise is impossible. It breaks news. It upholds the rest of the creative universe. And news organizations have stopped covering it. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
As an author of books and of book reviews this is absolutely true. I really worry about what it does to intellectual life longer term not to have a public that cares to engage with long form prose - whether fiction or non fiction. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
"The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches." Dwight Garner on the dying book review: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
A concerning look into the decline of book reviewers and the rise of AI use in reviews in the US: 'Even before the rise of A.I. there was a near-extinction-level wipeout of the American book review.' #WritingCommunity #WritersLife www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
The NYTimes, which had to shitcan a writer for using AI to write a book review in the NYTimes JUST LAST GODDAMN MONTH, might want to sit this one the fuck out www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
One of the last full time in-house book critics wondering from the comfort of their massive platform why more people aren’t writing book reviews is honestly kind of infuriating.
Good piece on the slow death of the book review. "Our Team" got maybe five reviews in newspapers and magazines. "Moses and the Doctor" has had two so far. Seems about right, according to this piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. Not sure it's much better over here... #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
There are five full-time book critics in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
How disheartening this is...especially as a book reviewer/blogger 😞 Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
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"The flat, consistent tone, the pert little summary bits, the repetitions, the impersonal and fluorescent-lit mood. Reading it, you feel you’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name." Great article from NYT on AI and book reviews. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... #BookSky #Writing
Preserve #book reviews www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... Let alone #writing as a whole my take here nkozphoto.com/index.php/20... #books #literature #publishing #nonfiction #politics #fiction #thought #thinking #bots #chatbots #ai
"Not long ago, someone estimated that there were seven full-time book critics left in America. With The Post’s Book World gone, that number has dropped to five."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... Yes, where?
One more thing that AI is taking from us: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Oh no, where have all the book reviews gone! Maybe it would help if we stopped doing the New York & corporate media naval gazing for like one second www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... @writersandartists.bsky.social @writingabtwriting.bsky.social #books
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... #reading #books
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... #books #literature #AI 📚
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
“It’s a grim business to linger on the numbers. In the ‘60s a good first novel might receive 90 individual newspaper reviews…the novelist Reynolds Price wrote in his memoir ‘Ardent Spirits.‘ By 2009, the year [it] was issued, he reckoned the number was 20 at best. What would it be now? Two? Three?”
[Gift article] "Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone" by @dwightgarner.bsky.social. May professional criticism and genuine word-of-mouth recommendations continue to have influence... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... And "Challenge" by Donald Barthelme: www.newyorker.com/magazine/198...
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? A gift article. A sobering look at the decline of book reviews. It will be ever harder for writers to find a way to get their books noticed by potential readers. #booksky #writingcommunity 📚💙📚
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
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Good question. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... Book reviews are dying out in newspapers and weeklies...
Good question - but does this piece actually offer any answers? Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Dwight Garner. Gift link.
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b... By Dwight Garner for the New York Times #wkb73
And so is this essay. I once tried to warn people, including some I respected and admired, about the loss of "gatekeepers," but was shouted down. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? “As a lonely and shellshocked survivor of this decimation, I find it hard not to envy the critics in London, which still has at least seven daily or Sunday papers in which a serious author might hope for a review.” Debatable.. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
"here’s another number: Not long ago, someone estimated that there were seven full-time book critics left in America. With The Post’s Book World gone, that number has dropped to five." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Not quite the doomsday piece I thought it was. Good read. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
"In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient short story, in The New Yorker [about a] Japanese book-reviewing technology — bots that deliver “sleek, space-efficient” pieces...putting American critics out to pasture." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...
Essay: "Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone? What the rise of AI and the gutting of books coverage across US media will mean for literature" in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...