407:-- The purpose of WP is not to host book reviews. The test is whether this book is notable. It appears to be a collection of academic essays opposing the views of Chomsky. There is a host of collections of academic essays in books. When I have sought to access individual essays in such works my experience is that very few libraries actually hold a copy. The article is on a book with a POV. This makes it difficult for the article to present a NPOV on the underlying topic, but that is not a reason for deletion, if the article provides a fair account of the book.
329:- Still looking, but it's worth highlighting that this is a self-published book. One of the authors runs the conservative publisher. There doesn't look to be much coverage outside of the conservative media bubble. Still looking for mainstream reviews (in popular or academic press), which may exist. The New Criterion piece might be the best we have thus far (written by
350:. I don't think the self-published status is particularly relevant. Self-published books can be notable — for instance I have created two articles on self-published books that I think are notable, by virtue of their multiple published reviews,
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