Howard Davies’ plea to literary editors
‘More distance is required by our reviewers’
17 October 2007
The Bookseller reports
Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics, used last night’s Booker awards ceremony as a platform to mount an attack on the art of book reviewing, reports the Times. Too many reviewers adopt a reverential tone for books that barely deserve a review, let alone recommendation, he said last night.
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