>From now on, the *Post* will no longer accommodate the admirably omnivorous avidity of its best readers. Visitors to its home page will no longer come across unforeseen book reviews, or really much writing about the arts at all. Last week, the paper fired close to half of the staff who remained after a previous round of layoffs, gutting its local and international desks, decimating its sports and arts coverage, and eliminating Book World altogether. No one who has anything to do with books remains employed at the paper, although I am told that the opinion section (exhorted last year to cheerlead for “personal liberties and free markets,” and Trumpism along with them) will run the occasional facsimile of a review. The Associated Press stopped publishing book reviews last fall; the *Times Book Review* is the last discrete newspaper books section standing.
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>From now on, the *Post* will no longer accommodate the admirably omnivorous avidity of its best readers. Visitors to its home page will no longer come across unforeseen book reviews, or really much writing about the arts at all. Last week, the paper fired close to half of the staff who remained after a previous round of layoffs, gutting its local and international desks, decimating its sports and arts coverage, and eliminating Book World altogether. No one who has anything to do with books remains employed at the paper, although I am told that the opinion section (exhorted last year to cheerlead for “personal liberties and free markets,” and Trumpism along with them) will run the occasional facsimile of a review. The Associated Press stopped publishing book reviews last fall; the *Times Book Review* is the last discrete newspaper books section standing.