Back in August, when Jodi Picoult tweeted about the New Y...

Back in August, when Jodi Picoult tweeted about the New York Times' predilection for reviewing the fiction of white men, people wondered: is this true?

A few weeks after the #franzenfreude conversation began, the bloggers at Slate's DoubleX.com ran the numbers…and found that they're even worse than regular readers of the paper might have guessed.

Of all of the fiction the New York Times reviewed last year, only 38 percent was written by women.

Of all the novels that got the coveted double review...