Introducing Cover to Cover

If you’re an avid reader of the Century, you might notice that we publish on our website every week a very short book review that seemingly has no author and is written in a fairly neutral voice. In the print magazine and the downloadable pdf version, these reviews, called BookMarks, appear at the end of the book review section. They cover a range of books, from academic to popular nonfiction to fiction.

You’ll continue to find the BookMarks in the print magazine and the pdf version, but on our new website we’re replacing them with something even better: this blog. The same books will be covered, but in the blog I’ll write about them more transparently, at more length, and with the occasional sass. Here's an example (although in this particular case there isn’t a whole lot of sass. My sassy side tends to be dormant during Advent.)

I’ll also sometimes blog about books that aren’t covered in the print magazine at all. Here's an example. (Also without sass. My sassy side is tempered when I'm reading and writing about mass incarceration.)