What is the fine-grained topic of the following text: it seems to be a column about "look how clever i am to have picked up these books you've never heard of" when it should be a column about "look guys, you are going to enjoy this and this ..."
I enjoyed his review of tash aw's book very much but did not read the other one you mentioned. Only return the topic.
Review and critique of a book column's approach.