“Criticism and reviews are both meta-forms–if they don’t in some way amplify or complicate the subject of their focus, then they shouldn’t exist. So much of what passes for reviews or criticism that I read online seems not simply to fail to contribute to my understanding of the work under review, but actually to disrupt that understanding, or worse, to degrade the work.”
It’s still “Mean Week” at HTMLGIANT as Justin Taylor wonders whether book reviewers need to be held to higher standards. In short, he says, we need to review the reviewers.
