The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Per Wahloo's The Generals.

In writing about the (apparently soon to come) ouster of Random House head Peter Olson Marion Maneker suggests: If you want to understand book publishing, you need to think less Bloomsbury and more Gambino.

The ridiculous 'Best of the Booker'-competition proceeds apace, as they've now announced the shortlist. Obviously, the public couldn't be trusted to winnow down the list to six finalists, so a panel of judges made the choice for them -- but

is coming up -- and this year that's where they'll be announcing the winners of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, on the 18th.

In Measure for Measure in the Boston Globe Jonathan Gottschall argues that: 'Literary criticism could be one of our best tools for understanding the human condition. But first, it needs a radical change: embracing science'.