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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

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

February 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: A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes, Breaking Bread, Buster Keaton, Camera Man, Dana Stevens, Gerald Peary, Jonathan Blumhofer, Michel Franco, Murderville, Novus String Quartet, Rodrigo Garcia, Sarah Osman, Sony Classical, Sundown, Tim Jackson, Tim Roth, Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, Helen Epstein, hitler, Mildred  Fish Harnack, Nazi, Rebecca Donner. culture vulture

Book Review: Sarah Ruhl’s “Smile: The Story of a Face”

This is the voice of a wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, patient, and author who wrote a memoir on her own terms. I can’t wait for Sarah Ruhl’s next play.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bell’s Palsy, Culture Vulture, Helen Epstein, memoir, Sarah-Ruhl, Smile

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