National Magazines

How do national magazines decide which books to review, and who will review them? What pressures do they face, when publishing long, serious reviews of academic books? How do they promote the essays they publish in the online environment? What is the nature of their relationships with publishing houses and authors? From their perspective, what is the state of the intellectual and financial environment for book reviewing? How have all these things changed over the past decade, and how are they likely to continue changing?