I have personally come to prefer The Guardian's coverage of books, and other arts over the New York Times's, mainly because of its expansive scope and heterogeneity. Besides The Guardian Book Review that covers poetry every week will outrank the more "journalistic/current affair-sy" NYT Book Review in my scales any day. Then the essays and excerpts Guardian prints are far more extensive than that can be found in NYT.

I also like the fact that Guardian doesn't maintain scores, i.e., best selling lists like the ones found in NYT; whose lists which have now become the de facto Dow Jones index of a book's sales popularity here in the United States, never mind its intrinsic worth or the lemming effect (or should we call in the tipping point effect that made Caldwell’s "Tipping Point" a NYT bestseller?) such lists may induce in the reading populace.

So here are some pieces worth reading from this week's Guardian Review: Doris Lessing's essay on D.H. Lawrence's life and "Lady Chatterley's Lover". I would also recommend Geoff Dyer's "gate crashing" book, "Out of Sheer Rage", which I haphazardly plucked up for a dollar, and enjoyed immensely to the DHL fans. A review of Tom McCarthy's "Tintin and the Secret of Literature", which says Steven Spielberg is making a Tintin movie. I am buying tickets in advance for this one. This one should be of interest to certain hill-rollers I know of in Merry Olde England. If Dr. Johnson did it, so can they!!