Janice Harayda
Jul 17, 2024

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These reviews are great, but please consider working gracefully into each these three facts: the author's profession (or credentials) and the publisher of the book and when it came out. In this case you could have done it just by saying here: "the German-American political scientist Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap (Penguin, 2024)."

These facts can help readers put a book in context, especially in the U.S., which has many more publishers than the U.K. and where some firms have a distinct focus. Whether a book came from Penguin or Regnery (a well-established, politically very conservative imprint that tends to do lower-quality books than Penguin) tells you something about it.

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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