Book Review. These articles critique one recently published book, Many book reviews are now published by graduate students, perhaps since they count for so little on your curriculum vitae. You have to publish six to ten book reviews(depending on your discipline) before you have something equivalent in weight to a research article. In some places, it never adds up, counting for nothing. If you can produce book reviews quickly, it can be in your interest to pursue such writing, since it helps you write your dissertation literature review and get in the habit of briefly summarizing and critiquing books. Or, if you have devoted ten pages of your article to discussing a recent book and now realize that section needs to be cut, perhaps you can shape the pages into a stand-alone book review. But never substitute writing book reviews for writing a research article Indeed, some professors warn graduate students not to publish book reviews, since the authors you review may turn up on hiring committees. I wouldn't go that far, but I would say that you should only review books