It would be nice if there were a way to view recently published reviews from the explore menu. This could be a dedicated explore filter titled reviews that collates all newly published reviews which contain text.

It may be more appropriate to implement as a new feature to the Feed beside All Activity, either as a tab “All Reviews” or as one of a series of filters you could apply to the All Activity tab (envisioned as toggles/check boxes: ratings, reviews, added books, etc).

This would give reviews a bit more visibility as well as help explorers decide what to add to their TBR.