Some extremely rare tiles in review of serious writing (8)
I believe the answer is:
literary
'some extremely rare tiles in review of serious writing' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'some extremely rare tiles in review' is the wordplay.
'some' indicates a hidden word (some of the parts of the word are used).
'in review' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'yraretil' is hidden in the letters of 'extremely rare tiles'.
'yraretil' reversed gives 'LITERARY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for literary that I've seen before include "well read" , "Type of writing of artistic merit" , "To do with books, poems etc" , "Concerning written material" , "Relating to good creative writing" .)