The Literary Saloon points me to this:
"The only way you can detect that the reviewer doesn’t like the book is when they spend the whole time simply describing the plot. They’re not brave enough to say, ‘It doesn’t work’. [They] are tolerant of untidy novels. They don’t care whether they’re readable or not."
I agree with this and pretty much everything else in the article.
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas
The Disappearing Digital Data
Beckett’s Poetry
Imperial Fictions
Theresienstadt and the Problem of Knowledge in the Modern World
Reality Hunger Review @ B&N Review
Trash in Contemporary Literature
New @ TQC: JC Hallman & AWP
New @ TQC Sam Lipsyte Interview

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