You Be Ulin

[Previous editor Steve] Wasserman had been credited with bringing respect, and a number of top-name critics, to Book Review’s pages during his nine-year tenure. But some readers inside and outside the paper complained that Book Review could be arcane or fixated on topics that appealed to a narrow readership.

One Sunday section, for instance, focused solely on writing related to the Spanish Civil War.

Ulin said Wednesday that he plans to focus more on fiction than Book Review has in the recent past and will build “on the foundation that is already there to open it up and make it as energetic and engaged as possible.”