While typing up my (almost) daily review link-up a few minutes ago, I came across a review on Bookspot Central that was a bit interesting. It is a review covering the latest novel by Charlie Huston. You can find the review here. While I won't go so far as to say that I found the review offensive, I did wonder about the prolific profanity. Is that really appropriate in a review? Especially consider...

We're happy to see that The Quarterly Conversation has made the Powell's Review. Our review of Castle by J Robert Lennon was reprinted in the Review last week, joining luminaries like The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Washington Post Book World, and many others.

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Giorgio Faletti's I Kill. And, yes: we have got to get more discriminating in what we review.

  Here’s my list of the books that I enjoyed reading the most that were published in 2008, in no particular order: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (review and Interview with the author) Anathem by Neal Stephenson (review) The Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames (review) The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt (review) Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky (review) The Mons...

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Hugo Claus' Wonder, forthcoming from Archipelago Books.

Who says the book review is dying? One promising young critic just won $1,000 for her review work from the Virginia Quarterly Review's review contest. The literary journal announced this afternoon that Emily Wilkinson won the Young Reviewers Contest. Her review of "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective" by Kate Summerscale came in firs...

This is a review of Inferno, an anthology of stories edited by Ellen Datlow and published by Tor. It features fiction by the likes of Elizabeth Bear, Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, and more! Read the review after the jump . . . ARTICLEURL Related posts:Book Review - Star Trek: “Strange New Worlds 10″Book Review - The Empire of Ice CreamBook Review - Viewpoints Critica...

A while ago, softdrink posted a review for this book. As always, she brought in a whole new innovative approach to the review and I loved the sound of the book right away. I even mentioned that in her comments. Being the sweetheart that she is, she sent me her copy of the book!:) Thank you so much softdrink! I totally appreciate your kind gesture! And of course, no review can even match hers. So h...

The latest addition to our review section is Jessica Cobb’s review of Francois Begaudeau’s The Class, which is one of the few examples I can think of where the movie has been getting much more praise than the novel. (See this Complete Review review.) The Class is a novel about the everyday life of a Paris public school literature teacher who thinks that his current position is a bit us...

We're pretty enthusiastic about South African writer Breyten Breytenbach at The Quarterly Conversation. (See our review of All One Horse, and to come in the summer issue our review of Mouroir.) The Complete Review now offers a (small) review of his forthcoming Voice Over, "a small book of twelve-part sequence of poems Breyten Breytenbach wrote after the death of his friend, Mahmoud Darwish." Impre...