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Search Results for: Helen Epstein

Book Excerpt: Helen Epstein’s “Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid”

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged: cancer, COVID, Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid, Helen Epstein

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 […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: biography, Culture Vulture, EBook, Jewish, Joe Papp, Theater

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Podcast, World Books Tagged: Azar-Nafisi, Books, Culture Vulture, Featured, Helen Epstein, Podcast, Witold-Rybcynkski, World Books

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. 

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged: Culture Vulture, Helen Epstein

Book Review: “Run Towards the Danger” — Grappling With Memories of Trauma

Sarah Polley’s essay on sexual assault by itself is worth the price of the book, essential reading for anyone interested in the physical and psychological after-effects of violence against women.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Jian Ghomeshi, Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley, Women Talking

December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Short Fuses Tagged: A Golden Cello Decade: 1878-1888, Allen Michie, Alpha, Amanda Forsythe, Apollo's Fire, Avie, Barbara Hannigan, Beams, Camerata RCO, Connie Shih, Dan Costa, Drew Hart, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Heavenly Bach, Hyperion, In Sickness: A Memoir, Paul Hillier, Post Hill Press, Queen, rock, Sagging Meniscus Press, Sehnsucht, Six Moon Hill, Steven Isserlis, The Architects Collaborative, The Miracle Collector’s Edition, This is the Afterlife, Vespers & Complete All-Night Vigil

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Dinners with Ruth, Helen Epstein, Nina Totenberg

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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Adam Ellsworth, Chana Blankshteyn, Fear and Other Stories, George Walker, Gianandrea Noseda, Jacky Smith, Jason M. Rubin, Jim Jenkins, Joann Green Breuer, Jonathan Blumhofer, London-Symphony-Orchestra, Marco Pignataro, Mark Favermann, Queen: As It Began, Zoho Music

April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Andres Institute of Art, Blind Passion, Evelyn Rosenthal, Free Love, Jan Lisiecki, Jonathan Blumhofer, Katriona Taylor, Ladybug, Lori Zuroff, Mark Favermann, Night Music, Orange Mountain Music, Scott Moore, Simoine Dinnerstein, Steve Provizer, Tessa Hadley, Tim Jackson, Undersong, Waking World, Youn Sun Nah

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Matter of Life and Death, Amy Bloom, Brian Ameche, Culture Vulture, Dignitas, Helen Epstein, In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Marilyn Yalom

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