Just after Covid arrived in North America, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer — one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021.
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Fuse Interview: Helen Epstein Interviews Herself — Joe Papp Biography Goes Electronic
Author and Arts Fuse Contributor Helen Epstein explains why she decided to take her 1994 biography Joe Papp: An American Life and convert it into an eBook—given what may be the precarious future for the traditional book, she “wanted to save it for posterity.” By Helen Epstein. AF: Joe Papp died in 1991. Why publish […]
Helen Epstein on Memoirs That Tell Too Much and Too Little
By Bill Marx In a recent World Books podcast I talk to author and book critic Helen Epstein about two new memoirs that share intriguing similarities and differences. Both are written in English by émigrés living in North America, but very much planted in other cultural traditions.
Reviewer weighs in on #MeToo
Polling classmates from her all-girls high school, Helen Epstein hears them remember their experiences facing sexual predators on the subway.
Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive
Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.
May Short Fuses – Materia Critica
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
April Short Fuses – Materia Critica
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Book Review: “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss” — A Brave and Heartrending Story
This is a profoundly disturbing memoir about a subject that hits close to home for many readers.
February Short Fuses – Materia Critica
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Book Review: “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days” — Innovative History of a Female Anti-Nazi Resistance Leader
What holds this wildly ambitious book together and drives the narrative is Rebecca Donner’s unwavering, partisan voice.