The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post | The New Yorker
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Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
Save this story Save this story In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post . The shock to my system was immediate. In graduate school, where I studied aesthetics and German philosophy, I seldom came into contact with anyone who did anything else; even a brush with a classicist or the occasional stray Cartesian felt like something of a transgression. But the Post , it turned out, was much less siloed than the university. On my first day, I discovered that Books was seated
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