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I've noticed lately that many literary weblogs are indeed trying out more ambitious ways of engaging with current books and writing -- longer reviews, shorter but pithier reviews, well-conducted interviews with authors (Robert Birnbaum obviously, but Mark Sarvas's interview with Andrew Sean Greer could also serve as a model of the form), extended commentary of various sorts -- but reattaching criticism to literature needn't take place only in blogs.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

He wound up coining a phrase that is pithier in Russian, sums up so much of the national character and is a favorite saying here to this day.

Viktor Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin's stolid prime minister, dies Will Englund 2010

Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.

Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010

Each week, it seems, the writing gets a little sharper, pithier, wittier.

STATE DINNER: Here's the animated Obama/Hu Jintao party you DIDN'T see... Michael Cavna 2011

A pithier expression of this lament was the headline of an online column by liberal Republican Charles Fried: "Obama Is Too Good for Us."

The Left's Summer of Discontent James Taranto 2011

Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.

Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010

I wish Obama would give pithier answers, be a bit less professorial.

Matthew Yglesias » Obama Presser 2009

And with academic tomes getting ever longer while tweets gets ever pithier, the essay may seem like a bit of a relic to many others too – a bit like county cricket squeezed between tests and Twenty 20.

In praise of … the essay | Editorial 2011

I give my assent to "the abundance of positive representations of love" -- how about a pithier slogan?

Do you think "Consent is Sexy"? 2009

Bartz offered a pithier description: Our job is fantastic information for people in fantastically interesting ways [...]

Yahoo CEO: 'Do I Look Like A Wimp?' (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010