FYI or die

Meghan O’Rouke has written an amazing article for Slate on gender and reviewing. 

Tres depresso martini. 

I would love to read an Australian version… Kill Your Darlings? Overland? Anyone?

Tellingly, the ratio of men’s to women’s books being reviewed is often, if not always, wider than the ratio of male to female bylines. The New Republicreviewed 55 books by men and only nine by women. The New Yorker reviewed 33 books by men and nine by women. The New York Review of Books reviewed 306 books by men and 59 by women—a slightly better ratio than its overall bylines but hardly even.

Read it here.