On the C-SPAN Networks: Michael Orthofer is a Managing Editor for the Complete Review with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2004 Forum. The year with the highest ...

The Complete Review website was established in 1999 by founder and managing editor Michael Orthofer. He has so far reviewed a staggering 3,760 books on that site. His goal is to read a book a day, but ...

In this age of plenty, with more books being published than ever, choosing what to read isn’t easy. A trusted bookseller, friend, or reviewer’s recommendation might be more consistently reliable, but ...

The seasonal flood of best-of-the-year lists and holiday gift-giving recommendations can be overwhelming — not least, as a reminder of how many great-sounding books we haven’t gotten to yet. Yet even ...

We qualify this post with the disclaimer that nobody will truly know who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature until the Swedish Academy announces the laureate one fine October morning (the secretive ...

Books in English translation, and their e-book counterparts, are the focus of a new imprint by Amazon.com, announced the company on May 18. AmazonCrossing will focus on English translations of foreign ...