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Home » Posts Tagged "book" (Page 2)
18 Jan
2021 January/February, Arts & Culture, Book Review

Book Review | Making Room for Ghosts

  • April 5, 2021
  • By author-avatar Barbara Goldberg
  • 1 comment
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English readers of Yiddish literature in translation—and there are many—have long had access to the poetry of Avrom Sutzkever, whom translator and Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse called “the uncrowned Jewish poet laureate.”

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Obama memoir cover
05 Jan
2021 January/February, Arts & Culture, Book Review

Book Review | The Failure of Impartiality

  • April 5, 2021
  • By author-avatar Robert Siegel
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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.

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Truthtelling: Stories, Fables, Glimpses By Lynne Sharon Schwartz
16 Nov
2020 November/December, Arts & Culture

Book Review | A Writer Winks at Her City

  • April 5, 2021
  • By author-avatar Susan Keselenko Coll
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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.

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Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel by Israeli author Shabtai Shavit
16 Nov
2020 November/December, Arts & Culture

Book Review | A Spymaster Breaks His Silence

  • April 5, 2021
  • By author-avatar Dan Raviv
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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.

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19 Oct
History, Latest

Book Interview: Isabel Wilkerson on Racism and Caste Systems

  • April 12, 2021
  • By author-avatar Robert Siegel
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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.

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The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 By Alicia Suskin Ostriker
30 Sep
2020 September/October, Arts & Culture

Book Review | A Poet Talks to Hashem—and Trump

  • April 12, 2021
  • By author-avatar Marge Piercy
  • 1 comment
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Alicia Ostriker’s new collection comprises selected poems from seven previous volumes. Ostriker has been an important poet for the past 45 years.

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The Tunnel by Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua
30 Sep
2020 September/October, Arts & Culture

Book Review | The Other Side of Dementia

  • April 12, 2021
  • By author-avatar Frances Brent
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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.

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10 Jun
Summer Issue 2020, World

Book Review | Cleansing the Continent

  • April 7, 2021
  • By author-avatar Michael Brenner
  • 1 comment
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There are many ways to explain the Holocaust. But not many historians have proffered a different theory with each published book.

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Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth by Benjamin Taylor
10 Jun
Arts & Culture, Summer Issue 2020

Book Review | Philip Roth’s Jewish America

  • April 7, 2021
  • By author-avatar Robert Siegel
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The first time I read a book by Philip Roth, I read it from back to front.

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Jewish Superwoman: Cosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny By Cora WilburThe Superwoman and Other Writings By Miriam Michelson and America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today By Pamela S. Nadell
20 Jan
Arts & Culture, Book Review, Winter Issue 2020

Book Review | In Search of Lost Wonder Women

  • November 6, 2020
  • By author-avatar Lauren B. Strauss
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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

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