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| Jennifer Szalai | |
Jennifer Ildiko Szalai, a New York Times Book Review editor, has been named the new nonfiction critic at the New York Times, effective in January. In a note announcing the change, Times book coverage editor Pamela Paul wrote that Szalai "joins a stellar team of staff critics that includes Dwight Garner and Parul Sehgal. Like both Dwight and Parul, Jennifer comes to the job directly from her role as an editor at Book Review, where for the past four years, she has been editing literary fiction and nonfiction reviews, as well as 'Bookends,' for which she is also a former columnist, and several of our most high-profile columnists."
Describing Szalai as "one of the most stylish, incisive, original writers on books, politics and culture today," Paul observed that she "is accustomed to negotiating between different viewpoints; she is an independent thinker with a supple, open mind attuned to books on many subjects--politics, foreign policy, government, social sciences, economics, science, technology, business and the arts. We look forward to introducing her to our readers, who we expect will come to rely on her for her thoughtful, clarifying judgments of the most important nonfiction books published today."