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Volume 45, no. 1 (Spring 2024) Conspiracy Theories Contents  From the Editor The Last Dictionary Jeffrey R. Di Leo Focus: Conspiracy Theories Introduction Michael Butter Katherina Thalmann, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theories since the 1950s: “A Plot to Make Us Look Foolish” Todor Hristov It’s the Algorithm, Stupid!: David Neiwert, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump and Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us ; Charles Arthur, Social Warming: How Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media ; Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World ; Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent Clare Birchall and Peter Knight Clare Birchall and Peter Knight, Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 Asbjørn Dyrendal Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy Michael Butter Scott Radnitz, Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region Eliot Borenstein Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends , edited by Anastasiya Astapova, Onoriu Colăcel, Corneliu Pintilescu, and Tamás Scheibner Lili Turza Luis Roniger and Leonardo Senkman, Conspiracy Theories and Latin American History: Lurking in the Shadows Katerina Hatzikidi Michael Hagemeister, The Perennial Conspiracy Theory: Reflections on the History of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” Claus Oberhauser Jaron Harambam, Contemporary Conspiracy Culture: Truth and Knowledge in an Era of Epistemic Instability Elżbieta Drążkiewicz E-Feature The Heartbreak of Desire E. Ethelbert Miller Lost and Found An Old Poem That Tells You How to Have Beautiful Children Anthony Madrid Fiction Rilla Askew, Prize for the Fire: A Novel Ken Hada Rebecca Goodman, Forgotten Night , and Susan M. Schultz, Lilith Walks Leonard Schwartz Jeffrey DeShell, Porgy & Bess by Miles Davis by George Gershwin by Dubose Heyward Jane Rosenberg LaForge Tom Strelich, Water Memory: A Novel Edward M. Bury Cartographies The Nomad in Situ, or, the Man of the Crowd in the Time of COVID Robert T. Tally Jr. Translation Speaking in Translation, or Speaking in Tongues Brian O’Keeffe Poetry Dionne Brand, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems Michael Joyce Ellen Lytle, marvel (the word), and Roberta Gould, Day True Hilary Sideris Myra Shapiro, When the World Walks toward You Bonny Finberg Boris and Ludmila Khersonsky, The Country Where Everyone’s Name Is Fear: Selected Poems Kathryn Weld Henry Weinfield, An Alphabet David M. Katz The Laureates Zeina Azzam’s “Hedge against Hardship”: A Conversation with the Poet Laureate of Alexandria, Virginia Renee H. Shea Theory On Contemporary Theory: An Interview with Jeffrey R. Di Leo Gina Masucci MacKenzie and Daniel T. O’Hara Criticism Nathan Allen Jones, Glitch Poetics Will Luers Humor Lou Perez, That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy Robert Kramer Art Darcie Alexander and Sam Sakeroff, Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art Jessi Rae Morton Anne Whitehouse, Surrealist Muse, Escaping Lee Miller, and Frida Alan Steinfeld Scenes Mad Hat Press: An Interview with Marc Vincenz Poetics to Come Elegy for Elegy Daniel T. O’Hara Departed Intellectual Civility and Engaged Pluralism: Remembering the Singular Accomplishments of Richard Jacob Bernstein (1932–2022) Vincent M. Colapietro

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Review: Garth Greenwell’s mystical novel ‘Small Rain’ teaches the art of living from a hospital bed

In the mystical tradition of the desert dwellers, there is a key moment—a movement, really—when the spiritual seeker withdraws from the chatter and noise of the world in order to devote attention to God and the soul. The ancient Greek word for this withdrawal is anachoresis , from which we get the notion of the anchorite , the hermit who retreats to the desert or to a cell in order to quell the distractions of the world and do battle with the flesh and the Devil, all in search of divine love.

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In the life of St. Ignatius Loyola, we see that such moments of anchoritic disruption are not always voluntary. Sometimes a retreat from worldly absorption is enforced by illness or injury. The cannonball that shattered Ignatius’ legs required months of recuperation. The bedroom of his convalescence became a veritable desert of spiritual encounter. He entered the room as a patient; he left it as a monk.

In this sense, Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain is a mystical novel, a story of anachoresis in which illness becomes an occasion for a new attention to one’s life and loves. After a searing episode of inexplicable pain, the unnamed narrator enters the dire space of an American hospital where he will spend weeks in recovery. His anger and frustration with the U.S. healthcare system is visceral and understandable. So many tubes and wires; so much waiting. But there is also a strange gift in being a patient.

“I felt weirdly detached,” the narrator admits, “engrossed by pain and also by a strange relief, the relief of being a patient, of being passive.” A patient suffers rather than acts, undergoes rather than accomplishes. But such passivity can also be a mode of receptivity. Sometimes when a life is interrupted in this way, we become open to gifts otherwise hidden by our agency, activity and accomplishment.

As the story unfolds, the malaise of the hospital is unsettled by two channels of grace: people and poetry—or, more broadly, by art and the art of caring. While there are cold, aloof doctors and disappointing (overwhelmed) nurses, the tiny world of the narrator’s hospital room is a site of visitation by people who embody the art of caring—like Frank, an E.R. nurse, and Alivia, an I.C.U. nurse. Each of them are drawn as marvelously human characters, with their own quirks and hopes, who give the narrator something irreducible: recognition . These otherwise invisible professionals see him suffering, see his fear, see his loneliness, and respond with warmth and care that is humane and humanizing. To them, he is not just a “case.”

Being seen becomes the condition for seeing anew, which is what our patient receives from art. The narrator of Small Rain is a poet and a teacher at a local college. He studied music and loves literature. There is a beautiful, touching moment early in the story when Frank, the E.R. nurse, shares a story about his jazz band playing gigs at the college. They begin trading stories about their shared love for early choral music and, when talking about his latest enthusiasm, the Renaissance composer John Taverner, Frank pulls up his “Westron Wynde Mass” to play it on his phone. The scene is intimate, tender: “Frank had come close to the bed, aiming his phone at me, and he leaned toward me, too, bending his head so we could listen together. I was surprised by how well I remembered the tune; it had been so long ago that I had sung it, and I had come to think of the words free of music.”

What follows is a beguiling reverie of music criticism, taking us into the narrator’s memory and his incisive, critical mind, inviting us into the beautiful complexity of the poetry and music. Then we bend back to Frank:

I heard it in a new way, listening to it with Frank, I felt my eyes fill with tears. After the tenor solo the mass proper begins, the tune in the sopranos first, with the words not of the poem but of the Gloria, Et in terra pax. Frank let it play for a moment, the Renaissance polyphony that always sounds to me like petals opening, a rose blooming in time-lapse photography; I’m embarrassed by the image, it was something I felt as a teenager and I still feel it now.

Such meditation on art suffuses the rest of the story. In his hospital “cell,” the narrator turns to the poetry he has brought with him. He describes a poem by George Oppen, “Stranger’s Child,” as “a prosthetic consciousness—which is something poems can be, they can create new spaces in our interiors sometimes.” The poem itself is an act of patient attention, and the narrator’s explication of it is like a frame-by-frame act of devotion that yields a maxim for living: that “to recognize another means to imagine them in relation, to conjure for every stranger the stranger to whom they are dear.”

Art here has a moral, even spiritual function. “[T]he disciplined attention of art is a moral discipline,” the narrator concludes. “Whole strata of reality are lost to us at the speed at which we live, our ability to perceive them is lost, and maybe that’s the value of poetry, there are aspects of the world that are only visible at the frequency of certain poems.”

Art—poetry, in this instance—is a form of attention, but we need more anachoresis in our lives to give ourselves over to what it offers. “Probably I wouldn’t have seen Oppen’s poem in this way anywhere other than that bed,” the narrator admits. Here, again, is a mystical move: Sometimes you have to retreat from the world to get it all back, shining in its glory. Here, too, is a mystical, almost monastic aspect of the novel: the way art serves a spiritual function in our lives.

Greenwell’s prose is enchanting—quiet, sensitive, gentle. Everything and everyone is held for attention with tender hands. The structure of the novel, even of individual paragraphs, is characterized by a kind of porous sense of time. While there is a chronological spine that takes us through his illness and recovery, time also bends—back to his childhood, meeting his partner, his schooling, a prolonged season of home renovation. Within a single paragraph, Greenwell—in the space of the narrator’s mind and imagination—seamlessly takes us across time and around the globe.

This is how our minds work, isn’t it? In the blink of an eye, without a jolt or hiccup of consciousness, our minds wander from zucchinis to a market in Rome to memories of a day fishing with grandpa. In a feat of craft, Greenwell gets this experience of consciousness down on the page in a way that is fluid and feels natural. Given that the narrator is from Kentucky, I couldn’t help thinking of Thomas Merton’s revelation on that street corner in Louisville: “There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” But a novel like this isn’t a bad way to try. Small Rain is its own artistic testament to the cosmos of consciousness that is every stranger we pass, every cashier at their register, every enemy we loathe.

In this way, too, Small Rain , in its very form—its prose, its pacing, its quiet attention to concrete particulars, what Gerard Manley Hopkins prized as haecceity —invites the reader to become contemplative. To retreat from the world into this novel is its own spiritual experience.

This story embodies the way anachoresis , withdrawal, becomes a condition for seeing ourselves and the world—and maybe even God—anew. But the price of that illumination is suffering. The mystical path is, unavoidably, an ordeal of purgation. “Why should only suffering be a vale of soul-making?,” the narrator asks. If anachoresis yields a new form of attention, even, ultimately, wonder, that is because such retreat peels back the accretions and comforts that blind us because they distract and absorb us. Purgation, in the mystical tradition, is not punitive; it is liberative. Here, paradoxically, is a loss that leads not to deficiency but to an awareness of abundance. So it is not a question of whether we will suffer, but what we will do with our suffering. What can we receive in our loss?

Like St. John’s Dark Night or St. Teresa’s Interior Castle , Small Rain is, ultimately, a love story. Tuned to the frequency of care-full attention, the narrator begins to consider what feels like an Augustinian question: “Why do we love what we love, why does so much fail to move us, why does so much pass by us unloved.” The ultimate epiphany, the gift given to the patient who undergoes and suffers, is the realization that he is beloved. His partner, named simply L., is the sacramental conduit of this tender grace.

At home from the hospital, on the long road of recovery, the narrator considers “what sickness had shown me.” He reflects: “Maybe it wasn’t true that there were no arts of living, with L’s hand in mine it seemed that maybe there were.”

Small Rain might help one imagine an art of living, the art of living gratefully, letting oneself believe, at least in our best moments, that grace is everywhere.

James K.A. Smith teaches philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His latest book is How to Inhabit Time . He is at work on a new book exploring the mystical tradition and contemporary art.

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Founded in 1977, the American Book Review is a nonprofit, internationally distributed publication that appears four times a year. ABR specializes in reviews of frequently neglected published works of fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism from small, regional, university, ethnic, avant-garde, and women's presses. ABR as a literary journal aims to project the sense of engagement that writers themselves feel about what is being published. It is edited and produced by writers for writers and the general public.

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• Jeffrey R. Di Leo
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906484

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• Steven G. Kellman
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906485
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• Jay Neugeboren
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906486
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906487
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906488
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• Lee Robinson
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906489
• "My Plate Is Full": Rejection, a Memoir
• Steve Tomasula
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906490
• A Literate Journey
• John Tytell
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906491
• My Soul, the Mule
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906492
• An Interview with Matt Madden
• Frederick Luis Aldama
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906493
• On Lucille Clifton's Children's Books
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906494
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906495
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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2023.a906508
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"The trouble with beginnings is that there's no such thing," muses the narrator of Rachel Khong's debut novel Goodbye, Vitamin . "What's a beginning but an arbitrary point of entry? You begin when you're born, I guess, but it's not like you know anything about that."

The difficulty of demarcating starting points also animates Khong's new book, Real Americans , which begins at least four times: The book is carved up into three novella-length sections, each told from the perspective of a different character, plus a prologue. Khong's latest begins, faute de mieux, with a short set piece in Beijing in 1966 before leaping forward to 1999. In this first section, we meet Lily, one of the book's three protagonists. While working as an unpaid intern at an online travel magazine in New York, she crosses paths with Matthew, a "distractingly hot" asset manager who works in private equity.

They bond over the rather banal fact that they were both born on Long Island and the more consequential fact that they vaguely knew one another as children. The art-history major confesses, "I wasn't the sort of person who yearned to shape a landscape. I wanted only to observe it." Matthew is intrigued enough to propose, after just a few dates. After she loses her job, he wires a thousand dollars to her bank account each week, no questions asked, and gives her a separate allowance to redecorate their condo. It's only when they're about to get married that Lily finds out that Matthew is the scion of a blue-blooded family; he uses a different surname to deflect attention. After they conceive a child via IVF, she discovers a secret connection between Matthew's parents and her own, which splits the family apart.

'Goodbye, Vitamin' Is Sweet — But Not Sugarcoated

The book then skips ahead to 2021 and lodges us in the perspective of Nick, Lily's son. It's by far the most plodding and prosaic section, giving us chapter and verse on Nick's teenage years, college relationships, and eventual employment at a foundation whose "many projects included vaccination campaigns; addressing health inequities; screening against diseases in utero," and more. The strongest parts are the early years, when we encounter the high-achieving teen fretting over college admissions; his mother wants him to stay close to their home in Seattle, whereas he itches to matriculate at an Ivy League school on the East Coast. "I was self-absorbed without even knowing who I was, or who I should be — an exasperating combination," he self-mockingly notes. Long estranged from Matthew, Lily raised Nick to understand that his father wanted nothing to do with him. When Nick finally does meet his father — after doing a DNA test — his life takes a fairly predictable turn. Money is an open sesame, unlocking doors to the most prestigious universities, secret societies, and jobs. But the accumulation of it turns Nick into an automaton.

The third and most memorable part of the book is told largely from the perspective of May, Nick's maternal grandmother. It opens in 2030 with a now octogenarian May trailing her grandson, who works at a "biotechnology startup." Nick had been led to believe — once again by his mother — that his grandmother had died years ago, but after bumping into each other in a drugstore, they slowly form a friendship and she unfurls the story of her life. As an adolescent "in the southern basin of the Yangtze River," the "outspoken" May drank in scientific knowledge and distinguished herself as a young scholar. The amount of research Khong did for this section alone, brimming with strange and delightful facts, could earn her an honorary doctorate at some university. In this section, Khong also masterfully evokes the atmosphere of Beijing during the time of the Cultural Revolution and the Four Pests campaign. In school, May strikes up a romance with a fellow student named Ping; together, they "study the lotus and its repair mechanisms" and dream of running away together to the U.S. to become geneticists and escape the oppressiveness of Mao's China. Their dream doesn't come to pass — or only part of it comes to fruition: After a short stay in Hong Kong, May manages to find a job in the U.S., but her new life starts with the "wrong man."

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An element of fantasy suffuses all three stories: May and her descendants possess the power to "keep time still." At first, this power feels less like a volitional exertion than the onset of a panic attack. To go into more detail about what exactly is going on would spoil part of the fun of reading the final section; suffice it to say that the time-arresting power has something to do with "an ancient lotus seed." Like his grandmother before him, Nick learns to control this power and opportunistically exploit it by studying longer and more intensely than his classmates.

Many philosophical ideas get an airing in Real Americans , including the existence of free will and the ethics of altering genomes to select for "favorable" inheritable traits and suppress unfavorable ones. "What could we change about our lives? Could we nudge inheritance in particular directions?" wonders one character. Unfortunately, too many of these moral conundrums are expressed in the baldly straightforward manner of a scientific study. But the questions that drive May's academic research baldly double as animating questions for the novel. Unsubtle as they are, they're also queries that we will likely have to answer in the near future — a time when polygenic screenings are increasingly common, people lengthen their lives with elixirs, and beginnings become harder and harder to recall.

Rhoda Feng is a freelance writer from New York whose criticism has appeared in 4Columns, The Baffler, The White Review, The New Republic, Public Books, Village Voice, and others.

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BookBrowse Reviewers have written thousands of book reviews in the 20+ years we've been around, and we receive thousands of applications each year from would-be book reviewers.  However the reviews in these applications are generally low quality, and we realized both book reviewers and readers could benefit from our perspective on writing high quality reviews. So, for the first time we've taken our internal Guidelines for BookBrowse Reviewers and amended them for the general public.

One note - book reviews are by nature subjective, and BookBrowse reviews in particular are unique, so we don't claim to have the only recipe to writing good book reviews—but readers have been appreciating this formula for decades, so we hope it can improve book reviews everywhere.

How Much of a Book Review Should be Summary?

This is controversial, but we have a strong opinion that great book reviews are actually more analysis than summary.  We feel there is little point in reviewing books the way most sources do (90% plot summary, 10% commentary), because that is just repeating what's already been said before—both in reviews (particularly pre-pubs) and in the book’s own jacket description. As such, we believe good book reviews focus more on analysis and opinion. It's also an easy way for us to weed out reviews written with AI.

Writing Positive vs. Critical Book Reviews

BookBrowse seeks to guide readers to the very best new books. Thus, with rare exceptions, we only publish full length reviews of books that we wholeheartedly recommend. Therefore this guide will be biased toward reviewing books positively, but critical reviews certainly have their place.

Our advice is to treat reviews as if they're going to be read by the author. Book reviews do not need to be—and in fact, except in exceptional cases, should not be—universally positive. If there are points to criticize, they should be noted. But it should be done professionally, and when the criticism is a matter of preference, that should also be noted (see our section on bias below).

The Purpose of a Book Review

A good book review helps the reader decide if a particular book is right for them (or their child, friend, customer, patron etc.) In short:

1. The review should tell what the book is about. 2. The review should tell what the book's author says about that thing the book is about. 3. The review should tell what the reviewer thinks about what the book's author says about that thing the book is about. 4. The reviewer should remember that they are writing not for themselves or the people they want to impress but for the people the writer is hoping to reach.

Considering Audience and Tone in your Book Reviews

When writing book reviews, it's important to consider who your audience is.  For BookBrowse, our readers are well-read, inquisitive and intelligent. They wish to find out about new books, find their next great read, and absorb a few interesting nuggets of information along the way. We want our reviewers to appear as the intelligent and well-read people they are, and if they have expertise in a topic we encourage them to express it, but they should do so in a way that talks “to” the reader in a conversational, approachable manner. The review should be a forum to showcase the book, not to show off a reviewer's superior intellect. 

Should Book Reviews be Written in First or Third Person? 

We don’t have a recommendation on third person vs. first person voice. As a rule, writing in the third person lends the review a certain air of authority, whereas writing in the first person offers more of a personal connection. You should feel comfortable writing in whichever form best suits the particular book.

Book Reviews Should also be Great Reading

Book reviews should be carefully structured with thought given to the arc, through-line, and shape of your review. Without the exhaustive plot reconstruction that usually determines the shape of most book reviews, you’ll need to pay special attention to your structure. Your review should not read like a list of bullet points or unrelated observations – it should be fluid, cohesive, and easy to read, and should be enjoyable as a piece of writing in its own right, so that even those who have read the book, or perhaps don’t believe they’re even interested in doing so, find it compelling reading.

Feel free to be enthusiastic about books you love, and to thoughtfully criticize elements you find problematic. Seek to engage your readers, to excite or incite with your reflections, analysis, and opinions, and make them glad they took the time to read your review.

As one of our members wrote, “What I hate about many reviews is just that they rehash the story and never really include the negative aspects or gush about a particular point. BookBrowse’s are the only reviews that I find are deeply honest."

How Long Should a Book Review Be?

We aim for book reviews of about 600 words, but the length should be determined by the scope of each book and review, so it may be appropriate to run a bit shorter or longer, keeping in mind that a shorter, tightly-written review is preferable to a longer rambling one.  Depending on your format and criteria, your review length may vary considerably, but we go by the general principle of less is more.

Bias in Book Reviews

We all have biases. There is no such thing as an entirely objective review—and one that attempted to be so would likely be rather dull. The key is that reviewers are clear with their readers if a significant bias exists.

For example, the world of books is small. As a result, many of our book reviewers count authors among their friends and acquaintances. In general, we prefer that somebody who knows an author does not review that author’s book but, depending on the connection, it might be appropriate. However, what is essential is that if assigned to review the book, the reviewer should be clear with readers that there is a connection.

The same applies if you are reviewing a book on a topic that you already feel strongly about and thus your reading/opinion of the book might be skewed by this existing prejudice. Strong opinions can make for interesting reviews but it is your responsibility to be clear with the readers that you are approaching the book with an existing bias. Doing so doesn’t negate the value of the reviewer’s opinion, it simply puts it into context.

Finally, take the opportunity to use the review process to interrogate your own taste. This sometimes happens unconsciously, as you process why a book does or does not resonate with you. For example, maybe you don’t consider yourself a fantasy fan but you end up loving a particular fantasy novel. Why is that? How does this discovery fine tune your understanding of your taste? This kind of interrogation is another layer of transparency and awareness of bias and can make for a richer book review.

How to Write Good Fiction Book Reviews: Long on analysis, short on plot description, and no plot spoilers

Our fiction reviews focus on analysis and opinion of the author’s prose style, character development, structure, handling of the subject matter, themes, and your experience of reading the book. Referencing plot elements is fine and setting the story into context (e.g., setting/time period) is a must, but plot should not be the focus of the review.

How to Write Good Nonfiction Book Reviews

When writing nonfiction reviews , it's often appropriate to provide specific details about the book over what would be the norm in a fiction review. We believe nonfiction reviews serve multiple purposes: to pique readers' interest in the book and give them sufficient information to decide whether to read it; to provide nuggets of information that expand their immediate knowledge; and to provide enough key points so that they might be able to withstand a water cooler chat on the topic, even if they haven't read the whole book.

Critical Writing Starts with Critical Reading

Take notes while reading so you can support your opinions with quotes and examples from the book.

Do Not Plagiarize and Do Not Use AI

At the risk of pointing out the obvious - do not plagiarize! It's an easy way to get fired from any paid writing gig, and if you're writing for your own blog, it will hurt your site.  AI generated reviews are not only generally low quality, with more summary than analysis, they are also typically boring to read, regurgitating the information available to them (which for a new book is typically limited), and using AI also hurts writers who are being paid for their hard work of reading and reviewing books.

Have Someone Else Edit Your Review

As EB White said, "the best writing is rewriting."  At BookBrowse, each of our reviewers is paired with an editor in order to finish their review, and we find it works wonders for the quality of our reviews.

We hope this guide has been helpful.  To an experienced book reviewer much of this guide may seem obvious, but we know from our reviewer applications that most reviews fail to meet these guidelines.  If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to leave them in the comments below, and if you’re interested in writing for BookBrowse, you can find our reviewer application here.

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