Category: Book Reviews

As I was updating my C.V. to include my latest book review, it dawned on me that I seem to have an conscious preference for book reviews that appear online. I’m early in my career, and I don’t yet get a lot of requests to review — rather, if I have strong feelings about a

Not to be snobbish or melodramatic, but without Dickens many common words might have been confined to the dustbins of history. He might induce boredom in junior high students, but his career, spectacularly narratable and the subject of numerous biographies, brought a number of words from the messiness of orality into the messiness of print.