Of course reviews matter. That's easy and predictable enough for someone writing a review to say, but it can be proven. Reviews matter in two ways: as filters, and as shapers of opinion. In his 1991 book, U & I, Nicholson Baker describes "book reviews, not books" as "the principal engines of change in the history […]
SOURCE: www.newstatesman.com at 06:01PM on March 23, 2018