LITERARY COMMENTARY

As of today, A Commonplace Blog will be succeeded by a new book blog hosted and sponsored by Commentary magazine. The new blog will be called Literary Commentary. This is its RSS feed.



Like this one, the new book blog will contain reviews of new books and reconsiderations of older books. It will contribute to Commentary magazine’s work of “tak[ing] inventory in and increase the storehouse of the best that has been thought and said.” Many of the same features will also be features of the new blog—book lists, the rediscovery of neglected writers, the careful dismantling of badly constructed literary reputations. A Commonplace Blog will continue to exist, but as an archive.



Literary Commentary will focus on the current literary scene. It will contain “news” of the book world, the publishing industry, the Republic of Letters. But more than anything, it will concentrate furiously—perhaps I should say pitilessly—on the question whether this book or that is any good.



Thank you with all my soul to the readers who have stuck with A Commonplace Blog till now. And I hope you will join me regularly in the activity of Literary Commentary. Again, you can subscribe to its RSS feed here.



UPDATE: Comments will be enabled at the Commentary site in a week or two.



UPDATE, II: Link fixed. (We didn’t like the original URL for the blog.)