Critic vs Reviewer

Il 2 febbraio, Harper’s Magazine e NYU hanno festeggiato Zadie Smith che da marzo inizierà a recensire libri per Harper’s Magazine. Zadie Smith ha parlato della differenza tra "critico" e "recensore". "She insisted on being called a reviewer, in fact, and not a critic, a distinction I understood as being between an all-powerful and hoity-toity judge-type (the critic) and a sort of fellow-traveller (the reviewer), one who approaches a book in a spirit of camaraderie and aims to represent that book in a piece of writing as carefully crafted as the book itself (which is not to say “softly”). newyorker.