NYT Book Review – Discriminating Or Influential (Can’t Have Both?)

Who will replace Chip McGrath as editor of the New York Times Book Review? And what will happen to the section? “I understand why the Times wouldn’t want to give up the section’s gravity, but if you wanted to make your mark as the editor of the Times Book Review, the first thing you would do is to make it less influential. That would give you the license to make the reviews livelier and more discriminating.”