The truth might hurt but hatchet jobs are too muchA fortnight ago, a new prize was awarded to critic Adam Mars-Jones for the Hatchet Job of the Year, for a review he wrote of Michael Cunningham's art-suffused novel By Nightfall, whose effects he forensically dismissed as "fatally pretty and second-hand". In the unlikely event that the award ever extends to comedy reviews, though, it's not one for which I'd …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PM on February 19, 2012