Complex sentence: The "New York Review of Books" wrote a predominantly negative review where they criticized elements of it as unconvincing and remarked that it was "tiresome, histrionic, hysterically overwritten" and was "desperate to show how brilliant it is".
Split into simpler sentences: The "New York Review of Books" wrote a predominantly negative review in which it criticized elements of the book as unconvincing. The review remarked that the book was "tiresome, histrionic, hysterically overwritten" and was "desperate to show how brilliant it is".