Nicolas Langlitz: I quit. I’ve edited the Books Forum for ten years and I feel it’s time for it to switch hands. I’m so glad they will be your hands, Des. While we all constantly read books and reviews of books, there isn’t a whole lot of discussion about the genre of the book review. That’s why we decided to talk about my experience with and your vision for the reviews section. One reason why I’m happy that you’re taking over is that I always thought of the Books Forum as key to the mission of BioSocieties to foster conversation between social researchers and life scientists—for example, by assigning reviews across disciplines. I very much enjoyed your book Rethinking Interdisciplinarity Across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences (2015), which you wrote with Felicity Callard, because it doesn’t degenerate into another soapbox oratory on the virtues of interdisciplinarity. It provides a frank account of a series of experiments in interdisciplinarity, both critical and constructive. I could imagine that the Books Forum will prove a good space for you to continue this work, although in very different formats. Des Fitzgerald: I’m actually writing two book reviews as we speak. One is for a mainstream sociology journal, where I’m trying unsuccessfully to craft a LondonReview-of-Books-type essay about two recent monographs related to my current research (one of the books I think is badly flawed but interesting; the other I think is a disaster). The second review is one that I was invited to do, which actually I don’t think has ever happened to me before—and I had this odd exchange with the editor where I somehow felt the need to confess, upfront, that though I was willing (even eager) to write the review, I expected to heartily dislike the book, and would feely

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Nicolas Langlitz：我辞职了。我已经编辑图书论坛十年了，我觉得是时候换手了。我很高兴他们会成为你的手，Des。虽然我们都经常阅读书籍和书评，但关于书评类型的讨论并不多。这就是为什么我们决定在评论部分讨论我的经验和您的看法。我很高兴你接任的一个原因是，我一直认为图书论坛是 BioSocieties 使命的关键，即促进社会研究人员和生命科学家之间的对话——例如，通过跨学科分配评论。我非常喜欢你和 Felicity Callard 一起写的《重新思考跨社会科学和神经科学的跨学科性》（2015 年）一书，因为它不会退化为另一个关于跨学科美德的肥皂盒演讲。它坦率地描述了一系列跨学科实验，既有批判性又有建设性。我可以想象，图书论坛将为您继续这项工作提供一个很好的空间，尽管形式非常不同。Des Fitzgerald：实际上我正在写两篇书评。一个是主流社会学期刊，在那里我试图写一篇伦敦书评类型的文章，关于我目前的研究相关的两本专着（我认为其中一本书有严重缺陷但很有趣；另一本我认为是一场灾难）。第二个评论是我被邀请做的，