Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times

Abstract

Reviewer: Jennifer C. Lena, Teachers College, Columbia University Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times examines the challenges faced by book reviewers in the course of doing that work. This examination is analytically anchored “in the types of uncertainties that critics confront in the course of writing book reviews, how critics respond to these uncertainties, and how this influences what critics do” (135). Chong provides a phenomenological analysis of how critics experience the work of assessment and the obstacles and opportunities they face in a job and a marketplace characterized by uncertainty. Evaluation and assessment are among the most vibrant and exciting domains of interdisciplinary research in 2020, with scholars in education, psychology, management, technology, the arts, and sociology working to understand the production, use, and consequences of evaluative instruments, from intelligence tests to predictive algorithms. We are living in a period of rapid theoretical and empirical...

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