Why, when and how? 10 tips for academic book reviewers

Professor Fleur Johns offers 10 rules of thumb that have guided her own reviewing efforts and may prove helpful to others working on book reviews, or thinking of doing so, in the course of their academic lives

Editor\u27s Page

JOE Is Here to Stay discusses our policy on permanence and archiving, and explains where you can find our policy statement. (Authors preparing P&T materials take note!) Read Any Good Books Lately? discusses JOE policy on book reviews. And August 2003 JOE discusses just what the heading suggests

Baptism at Bull Run

Valor in high definition An obituary for American innocence Okay. Here\u27s my perspective on book reviews. You don\u27t know me from Adam\u27s housecat, so why should you give a good golly-darn whether or not I like the book I\u27m reviewing? Well, you shouldn\u27t. So what I am going to do is...

Public Knowledge

An editorial framing the author\u27s perspective on book reviews as a form of scholarly communication