Gia tolentino's new book, "Wek omy gadia," came out last week. She says she tries not to adhere to the same formula for each of her reviews. But all writers are bound by certain obsessions and preoccupations,. We're not like this panoptic brain that sees everything. We move according to particular acto, and that's all so fine.
Parul Sehgal, a former a book critic for The New York Times, is now a staff writer at The New Yorker.
“My job is I think to be honest with the reader and to keep surfacing new ways for me and for other people to think about books. New vocabularies of pleasure and disgust.”
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