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Search Results for: roberta silman

Book Review: “Secrets and Shadows” — Lessons of the Past

Roberta Silman’s engaging and deeply felt novel is a reminder of what it means to carry a historical burden on both a personal and national level.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jewish fiction, Matt Hanson, Roberta Silman, Secrets and Shadows

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2022

An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Bill-Marx, Drew Hart, Ed Meek, Matt Hanson, Preston Gralla, Roberta Silman

Literary Appreciation: Grace Paley and the Swiveling Light of Truth

An homage to Grace Paley, one of the great American writers of the 20th century.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: American Short Story, Grace Paley, Later That Same Day, Roberta Silman, The Little Disturbances of Man

Book Review: Irish Author Claire Keegan Hits Her Stride

In Claire Keegan’s fiction, each sentence matters and each, sometimes very ordinary, action has real consequences.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Claire Keegan, Foster, Roberta Silman, Small Things Like These

Arts Remembrance: Pharoah Sanders, A Primordial Saxophone Deity, (1940-2022)

Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.

By: Steve Provizer, Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Anthony Wallace, Pharoah Sanders, Steve Provizer

Book Review: Colette’s “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri” — Tales of Love and Morality

A superb new translation in one volume of the two Chéri novellas, regarded as Colette’s masterwork.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Cheri, colette, Rachel Careau, Roberta Silman, The End of Cheri

Book Appreciation: A.B. Yehoshua’s “Mr. Mani” — A Great Work of Fiction

A.B. Yehoshua was anything but a provincial Israeli writer. He was literary giant whose imaginative gift was so striking and diverse that you never knew what he would do next.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: A.B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin, Mr Mani, Roberta Silman, The Extra, The Retrospective, The Tunnel

Book Review: “Hemingway’s Widow” — Not a Pretty Story

We now have a book that virtually closes the circle on Hemingway’s women, a biography that will be treasured by the author’s fans and scholars.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway’s Widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Pegasus Books, Timothy Christian

Book Review: “Letters to Camondo” — An Essential Testament to Jewish Memory and History

This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Edmund de Waal, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Letters to Camondo, Roberta Silman

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2021

An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics, including some disappointments.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Bill-Marx, Clea Simon, Preston Gralla, Roberta Silman

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