31
Jan
Book Review | The Power of DNA, Dolls and Delis
Last month, The New York Times published a piece called “Saying Goodbye to Hanukkah.”
18
Jan
Book Review | Making Room for Ghosts
Sutzkever’s “essential prose,” which could also be called “prose poetry” or “brief narratives,” has slipped by, little noticed. Until now.
05
Jan
Book Review | The Failure of Impartiality
Barack Obama’s transformation from youthful and eloquent U.S. Senate candidate to prime-time sensation and putative presidential timber came at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
16
Nov
Book Review | A Writer Winks at Her City
Every movie I watch now is a movie about an entire cast of people who seem to not have cancer, or at least this is, to me, its plot,” Anne Boyer observes in The Undying, her recent Pulitzer Prize-winning inquiry into cancer.
16
Nov
Book Review | A Spymaster Breaks His Silence
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By
Dan Raviv
When you start reading a memoir by a former spy, you always hope for descriptions of bloody assassinations, break-ins into banks and embassies, and heart-pounding high-speed chases.
19
Oct
Book Interview: Isabel Wilkerson on Racism and Caste Systems
The title of her new book is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. It retells the history of American racism from slavery to segregation, from everyday indignities to the use of lethal force. Throughout, she strives to write not of whites and Blacks, but of the majority caste and the minority caste.
30
Sep
Book Review | A Poet Talks to Hashem—and Trump
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By
Marge Piercy
Alicia Ostriker’s new collection comprises selected poems from seven previous volumes. Ostriker has been an important poet for the past 45 years.
30
Sep
Book Review | The Other Side of Dementia
If you live long enough, you will notice a paradox of aging: Diminishment of memory can sometimes go hand in hand with a greater capacity for complexity and for the kind of revelation that can be seen only through shadow.
10
Jun
Book Review | Cleansing the Continent
There are many ways to explain the Holocaust. But not many historians have proffered a different theory with each published book.
10
Jun
Book Review | Philip Roth’s Jewish America
The first time I read a book by Philip Roth, I read it from back to front.
20
Jan
Book Review | In Search of Lost Wonder Women
The larger-than-life figure of Wonder Woman strode back into popular culture in 2017 in the person of Gal Gadot, her red, white and blue costume
06
Jan
Book Review | Angels of Death on Trial
“The understandable desire to find Mengele alive and try him, presumably on television, contributed to a reluctance on the part of some to accept the fact of his death.”