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2 unusual facts about The New York Times Book Review


The New York Times Book Review

A study published in 2012, by University professor and author Roxane Gay, found that 90 percent of the New York Times book reviews published in 2011 were of books by white authors.

Sam Tanenhaus was Senior Editor from the spring of 2004 to spring 2013.


Aryeh Neier

He has contributed articles and opinion pieces to newspapers, magazines and journals including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review and Foreign Policy.

Daniel Asa Rose

Formerly the arts & culture editor of the Forward newspaper, he has published in The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New York Observer, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Playboy, Ploughshares, North American Review, Partisan Review, Southern Review, et al.

Deirdre Bair

Her biographies of Anaïs Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were chosen by the New York Times as “Best Books of the Year”, and her biography of Jung won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Eleanor Duckett

Duckett published a number of books with University of Michigan Press, mainly on European history, religious history, and saints, and was a reviewer for The New York Times Book Review.

Fiona Maazel

Maazel's work has appeared in publications including The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times, Tin House, Bomb, Fence, The Mississippi Review, Conjunctions, The Common, The Yale Review, Anthem, The Village Voice, N+1, This American Life, Selected Shorts, and on salon.com.

IBM during World War II

Richard Bernstein, writing for The New York Times Book Review, pointed out that "...many American companies did what I.B.M. did. ... What then makes I.B.M. different?"

Jennifer Gilmore

Gilmore's work has appeared in many anthologies and magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, Nerve and Salon.

Judith Shulevitz

She has been a columnist for Slate and The New York Times Book Review and currently serves as a columnist for, and the science editor of, The New Republic.

Marc Leepson

His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and Smithsonian, Preservation, and Military History magazines.

Richard Locke

He is the author of more than 180 essays and reviews that have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review, Bookforum, Salmagundi, The Yale Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and other publications.

Salim Muwakkil

Other publications in which Muwakkil's work has appeared include The Washington Post, ″The New York Times Book Review″, The Chicago Reader, The Progressive, Newsday, Cineaste, The Baltimore Sun, Z Magazine, Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Utne Reader.

The Dream Songs

Upon its publication, the book also received a positive review in The New York Times Book Review by the literary scholar Helen Vendler.

Who Stole Feminism?

In contrast, University of Pennsylvania professor Nina Auerbach excoriated the work for The New York Times Book Review, asserting that Sommers was a "muddled writer".


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Douglas Century

The New York Times Book Review saw the book as the embodiment of "hip-hop's Horatio Alger" myth: “Ice-T, in short, is someone hip-hop might have invented if he hadn’t invented himself," reviewer Baz Dreisinger wrote. "A goes-down-easy mélange of memoir, self-help, and amateur criminology. Ultimately, Ice showcases an eminently reasonable, positively likeable guy, the gangsta rapper even a parent could love.”

Freddy the Pig

Adam Hochschild, writing in The New York Times Book Review, describes the series as "the moral center of my childhood universe."

Jewish English Bible translations

It has since been published and widely reviewed in literary journals, including The New York Times Book Review by Frank Kermode and TLS in London.

Omar Cabezas

O'Conner, Patricia. T. The New York Times: Book Review of Fire From the Mountain, Volume 91: July 13 '86, p.