T he academic book review seems like a straightforward task. A journal editor sends you a book closely related to your expertise, offering an excuse to dig in and think about the shape of your field.

Against Academic Book Reviews The capsule format leads to painfully dull work. It’s time to try something new. The Review. By Paul Musgrave January 8, 2021.

Book reviews are important inputs into a wider system of academic publishing upon which the academic profession is symbiotically dependent, and in a previous career advice column I argued that all ...

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Open Minds: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech of Australia, by constitutional law experts Carolyn Evans and Adrienne Stone, is the first book-length examination of the French Review and the ...

So begins “Brill’s Companion to Episodes of ‘Heroic’ Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception,” a new academic book written by Rosanna Lauriola, an Adjunct Assistant ...

What is a book, anyway? If you have ever read a novel on your smartphone, you can’t help but ponder that question. In the 1990s, when “the history of the book” was taking off as an academic ...