My own principal occupation has been academic and most of my serious books are recognisably academic products the sort of thing professors like and are expected to do as part of their jobs However the Englishspeaking world I think fortunately acknowledges nothing comparable to the sharp distinction people from other cultures make between reviewing and literary study  and so with us it is quite usual for the same people to do both The days are gone when other academics reviled reviewerprofessors for unseemly selfdisplay or waste of academic time or betrayal of the dignity of their institutions And complaints from nonprofessors to the effect that the professors are taking the bread out of their mouths are also less common than they were partly because there is so much more reviewing nowadays that practically everyone can have some partly no doubt because the bread is often such a meagre ration