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Article: A new low at the Times.(Notes & Comments: January 2006)(The New York Times Book Review)(Brief article)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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We've had several occasions to remark on the astonishing metaphysical feat of The New York Times Book Review. For as long as anyone can remember, it has been an embarrassment, as bad as it was possible for such a mainstream paper to be, and yet--how do they do it?--it always manages to surprise by being just a little worse this week than last. A couple of months ago, the Review treated readers to a feature about the size of black genitalia. In its issue for December II, there appears an immensely long essay on contemporary art criticism called "State of the Art." We do not know who put Barry Gewen, an editor at the Book Review, up to the task. Perhaps he lost some bet ...