The journal Respons focuses on reviewing non-fiction in Swedish, including translations, in the humanities and social sciences, although we also have some other material, such as interviews, reports and debates. Each year we review around 150 books. Our reviewers are experts and are given space to both explain and critique the book in question. The journal is designed to work on two levels: it guides readers to individual books, but because the reviews are so detailed, reading Responses is inherently educational; the reader can absorb the essence of the books and get a solid overview. The overwhelming majority of our writers are academic experts but the texts are written and edited to be read by a general audience and, of course, by academics in other disciplines. This makes the response both interdisciplinary and educational. Respons was launched in 2012 because it was clear that daily newspapers were no longer covering non-fiction to any significant extent, while small publishers were increasingly responsible for publishing interesting books. An important part of the infrastructure of the Swedish public sphere was collapsing, which meant that the interested public lost the opportunity to survey and evaluate the publication of non-fiction and book publishers found it increasingly difficult to find their audience. Respons works to recreate this infrastructure.