''The New Rambler'' is an online book review co-founded by
Eric Posner,
Adrian Vermeule, and
Blakey Vermeule in 2015.
It was relaunched under new editorship in August 2019. Its current editors are Cindy Ewing, Connor Ewing, Simon Stern, and Anna Su.
The publication's name is an homage to
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...
's ''
Rambler''.
According to Posner, the new book review aims to publish "high-quality reviews of intellectually ambitious books" that Posner hopes will be comparable to those published by ''
The New York Review of Books'' and ''
The Times Literary Supplement''.
The founding of the review was prompted, in part, by
Leon Wieseltier's departure from ''
The New Republic'', an event that marked the end of that publication's celebrated role as a venue for longform reviews of serious books.
According to Michelle Karnes, a professor of medieval literature at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
who reviewed
Kazuo Ishiguro's 2015 novel ''
The Buried Giant
''The Buried Giant'' is a fantasy fiction, fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015.
The novel follows an elderly Celtic Britons, Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice ...
'' for New Rambler, "There's no ideological agenda for the journal, and so you can write what you really think without worrying about offending anyone."
Notable reviews
In 2015, ''New Rambler'' published a review of
Alice Goffman's ''
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City'' by
Steven Lubet
Steven Lubet is a legal scholar and author. Lubet is the Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University.
Lubet has been noted for his commentary on controversial issues such as the appointment of scholar Stev ...
, which brought the fledgling publication a "big jolt of attention."
References
External links
''The New Rambler''
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Book review magazines
Magazines established in 2015
Magazines published in Chicago