Fair trade
In more fallout from The Washington Post’s apology for Marianne Wiggins’s review of Until I Find You, John Irving’s latest, Slate weighs in with a defence of the opinionated reviewer, and a slam against toothless reviews. Writer Jack Shafer argues that a lack of bias is not only near-impossible to attain, but may not even be desirable: “to locate a reviewer who has only a passing social acquaintance with the author in question may be fair, but fair to whom? The author, maybe. But book reviews aren’t yearbook photos for authors to treasure. They’re for readers,” he writes.
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