http://crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/on-the-side-of-the-angels-symposium/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/on-the-side-of-the-angels-symposium/comment-page-1/#comment-264329 john theibault Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:08:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=9288#comment-264329 I agree that book symposia are a potentially powerful added-value for academic book reviewing -- especially in light of the closing-down of book review sections in newspapers mentioned in the previous post. The symposium format will undoubtedly work best for the really "big" books with cross-disciplinary appeal. I don't see them supplanting the book review sections of flagship disciplinary journals like <i> The American Historical Review</i>, simply because there are so many specialized works that appeal to only a small audience. I agree that book symposia are a potentially powerful added-value for academic book reviewing—especially in light of the closing-down of book review sections in newspapers mentioned in the previous post. The symposium format will undoubtedly work best for the really “big” books with cross-disciplinary appeal. I don’t see them supplanting the book review sections of flagship disciplinary journals like The American Historical Review, simply because there are so many specialized works that appeal to only a small audience.

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