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Notebook: On Reviewing

I wrote this Notebook for “Viva la Book Review,” a nonprofit that supports book reviews in print, digital, and audio media.

Jun 7 • Ann Kjellberg

Review: Andrew Hui on the Art of Color

Andrew Hui reviews Nabil Ali’s "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes"

Jun 4

May 2026

Review: Jean McGarry on Camus

I had relished the notebooks Camus wrote in his twenties, read when I was just as young. Encountering a new, much-expanded edition now in a different…

May 27

Review: Sarah Ruden on Emily Brontë

The overriding reason to persist in trying to know the shadowy Emily is her singularity and impressiveness

May 21

Review: Joy Williams on Jón Kalman Stefánsson

A perfect little novel

May 14

Notebook: Alt Writing III

Critics’ Uncertainty Principle: Is the character of culture altered by being observed?

May 6 • Ann Kjellberg

Notebook: Alt Writing II

Alt weeklies were natural critics of the media and establishments, natural workshops of a writer-driven style

May 5 • Ann Kjellberg

Notebook: Alt Writing I

Finding writers, placing writing, on street-corners and in hidden byways

May 4 • Ann Kjellberg

April 2026

Review: Roland Allen on the Libraries of Timbuktu

How a polyglot destination for thirsty long-distance trade caravans became a centuries-old sanctuary for books

Apr 29

Diary: Clare Carlisle, Writing a Whole Life

A biographer's subject matter is typically a whole life. What is that?

Apr 22

Review: Abby Rosebrock on Nancy Lemann

Deceptively comedic work that smuggles within it challenging revelations

Apr 15

Meet Our Spring 2026 Partner Bookstore! WordsWorth Books in Little Rock, Arkansas

Loving people is wanting to really know them, and that means saying, "I want to know your story"

Apr 5 • Ann Kjellberg