Magill's Literary Annual, 2007, is the fifty-third publication in a series that began in 1954. Critical essays for the first twenty-two years were collected and published in the twelve-volume
Survey of Contemporary Literature in 1977; since then, yearly sets have been published. Each year, Magill's Literary Annual seeks to evaluate critically 200 major examples of serious
literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar year. The reviews in the two-volume Magill's Literary Annual, 2007, are arranged alphabetically by title. At the
beginning of both volumes is a complete alphabetical list, by category, of all covered books that provides readers with the title, author, and a brief description of each work. Every essay is
approximately four pages in length.
