Read old things
On E.M. Forster, book reviewing, and stubbornness.
This is not really about Dwight Garner’s recent lament in the New York Times for the ever-disappearing book review, but since that piece did the rounds I’ve been thinking how strange it must be to be one of a handful of critics left standing in the field that was once a forest. Looking only at absence, it must be hard to see the presence, in new shapes …
