Reviewers & Critics
ACONTRIBUTOR to the Boston Globe since 2007, Kate Tuttle became the newspaper’s books editor in 2020. Over the past year and a half at the Globe she has interviewed an array of writers, including Kaveh Akbar, Rabih Alameddine, Lan Samantha Chang, Bernardine Evaristo, Gish Jen, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, and Lisa Taddeo. From 2014 to 2020, Tuttle served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle—a nonprofit organization with nearly eight hundred members: critics, authors, literary bloggers, book publishing professionals, and students—starting out as chair of the nonfiction committee and vice president of awards. She was board president for her last two years there.
Tuttle was born in Lawrence, Kansas, which the critic affectionately refers to as “a small haven of blue politics in a sea of red.” She attended the, for which she served as managing editor from 1999 to 2004, and the African American National Biography series, working as senior executive editor from 2004 to 2006. Tuttle began writing literary criticism in the mid-1990s and has remained an active reviewer ever since. Her writing has appeared in many national publications, including the , the , the , , , , and the . Her most recent contribution to was an interview with author Samantha Hunt in the May/June 2022 issue.
