On the first issue of the 2011 of the New York Times Book Review, titled “Why Criticism Matters” six accomplished literary critics, Stephen Burns, Katie Roiphe, Pankaj Mishra, Adam Kirsch, Sam Anderson and Elif Batuman, explain in the spirit of Alfred Kazin, “what it is they do, why they do it and why it matters.”
The cover and the internal pages designed by Leonardo Sonnoli (the NYT Book Review art director is Nicholas Blechman) are the echo product by the critics’ words about words about words.

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