"Yet, sometimes, a reviewer, carried away by their own enthusiasm for the subject, will end up producing a piece that says more about them than it does about the book."

A Radical Proposal: Book reviews should review books

Give us more judgement, more opinions[,] and more criticism

"Yet, sometimes, a reviewer, carried away by their own enthusiasm for the subject, will end up producing a piece that says more about them than it does about the book. Then, I think, it becomes the responsibility of a conscientious literary editor to return to their writer and, however distinguished and successful they are, to suggest, gently, that it would be a useful public service to the reader to indicate whether the book in front of them for review is worth purchasing."