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12 Jan
Arts & Culture, Book Review, Highlights, Winter Issue 2023

Book Review | A Girl Who’s Born to Climb

  • January 16, 2023
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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Allegra Goodman’s new novel is the first “Read With Jenna” book of 2023.

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07 Nov
2022 November/December, Arts & Culture, Book Review

Book Review | A Jewish Kid Who Loved Yeats

  • November 7, 2022
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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Robert Pinsky’s father, an Orthodox Jewish optician in Long Branch, New Jersey, liked to sum up success stories with a favorite phrase: “It all worked out okay.”

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A picture of Nein Nein Nein by Jerry Stahl
06 Jul
Arts & Culture, Book Review, Summer Issue 2022

Book Review | A Madcap Holocaust Holiday

  • July 6, 2022
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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An elderly Holocaust survivor dies and goes to heaven.

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26 May
Arts & Culture, Latest

Book Review | The Netanyahus Takes Off

  • June 10, 2022
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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When 41-year-old American novelist Joshua Cohen won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction last week for his semi-roman à clef, The Netanyahus, the first question occurring to close observers of Israeli culture and politics wasn’t “Is it good for the Jews?” but “How bad is it for Bibi and the family brand?”

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04 Apr
Book Review, Spring Issue 2022

Book Review | Germany’s Time of the Wolves

  • June 23, 2022
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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A European country bombed into rubble. Refugees streaming across multiple borders.

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15 Nov
2021 November/December, Arts & Culture, Book Review

Book Review | The First Covid Comedy

  • March 22, 2022
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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As Jonathan Safran Foer pioneered the 9/11 novel, so Shteyngart does for COVID.

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09 Jun
Arts & Culture, Book Review, Summer Issue 2021

Book Review | A Writer Irreverent Even in Death

  • February 24, 2022
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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Even those familiar with the prolific English novelist and essayist Jenny Diski (1947-2016) don’t think of her as primarily a “Jewish” writer.

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05 Jan
2021 January/February, Jewish World

The Yiddish Yiches of a New Top Diplomat

  • December 22, 2021
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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Should a jealous Jewish store owner keep tabs on his beautiful young wife, seemingly smitten with “a college man”?

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03 Mar
Arts & Culture, Spring Issue 2020

Book Review | When the Ivory Tower Closed Its Gates

  • October 20, 2022
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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Imagine a U.S. law that kept thousands of European Jews and others from obtaining visas to the United States in the 1930s, leaving many of them to deportation and death.

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13 Jan
Arts, Jewish World, Winter Issue 2020

Italian Jews: Rome, the Renaissance and Beyond

  • December 22, 2021
  • By author-avatar Carlin Romano
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A new museum in the medieval city of Ferrara illuminates more than two millennia of history. But it has yet to directly grapple with the Holocaust.

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