She also served as the host of a weekly hourlong Sirius show “Off the Books,” devoted to author interviews. She edited all of the magazine’s book coverage, overseeing not just reviews but features and publishing industry news, assigning some of the very first United States coverage of J. Before joining The Times, Tina was the longtime books editor at Entertainment Weekly, where she worked since the magazine’s founding over a quarter-century ago. She added new columns broadened coverage in thrillers, romance and historical fiction mined the Times archives for stories like the deathbed watch of Walt Whitman and “ Oops! Famously Scathing Reviews From The Times’s Archives” unleashed her love of literary maps and has become a welcome regular presence on the Book Review podcast, among other entrepreneurial ventures on the desk. Tina Jordan, who joined the Book Review as a preview editor in 2018 and fast made her mark, will become the new deputy editor of the Book Review. We are excited to announce new roles for two current editors and a new hire at the Book Review this month.
