The Common Man’s Book Reviews: The End of Civilization?

A while back (maybe seven years), I read a couple of articles on book reviews, written by an erudite man with impeccable credentials. In an online magazine called The Arts Fuse, he continues the lament of the literati on the growing tyranny of the common man’s book reviews.

I have almost forgotten what academic writing is like, at least a decade away from it. Academics don’t write like normal people. For one, they love to split hairs. And they use big words. But they do often have something to s...