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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

Book Review: “Renato!” — Novelist Eugene Mirabelli, Creator of Inwardness

What a pleasure it is to revel in this work, which expresses enduring values in such an original way.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Eugene Mirabelli, McPherson & Company, Renato!

Book Review: Colum McCann’s “Apeirogon” — Showing a Path Forward

Although some of Apeirogon is painful, this novel can inspire you to think differently and even to act, which is surely welcome after this horrible year in which we have all felt so helpless.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Apeirogon, Colum McCann

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2020

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, Ed Meek, Kai Maristed, Roberta Silman, Tess Lewis, Vince Czyz

Book Review: A Brilliant “Homeland Elegies” — Indispensable Witness

What Ayad Akhtar reveals, with stunning detail and a passion and an urgency rarely seen in American fiction, is that his is a story marked by a loneliness similar to that found in Melville, Dreiser, and T.S. Eliot, among others, and that puts him squarely in their company.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elergies

Literary Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” at 100

I hope this centennial will inspire readers to immerse themselves in this enormously important, rich, and vibrant work.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Book Review: A.B. Yehoshua’s “The Tunnel” — A Serious Romp about an Aging Brain

Exuberant is the right word for A.B. Yehoshua’s new novel, not only because of the story’s pile up of characters and events, but also for its prose.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A.B. Yehoshua, Hebrew, Israeli writing, The Tunnel

Book Review: “Invisible Years” — A Book for the Ages

Invisible Years is — simultaneously — an indispensable source and a distinguished work of art.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Family’s Collected Account of Separation and Survival during the Holocaust in the Netherlands, Daphne Geismar, Invisible Years, Roberta Silman

Book Review: “Immigrant Architect — Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream,” a Splendid Book about Design for all Ages

A book to cheer you in these challenging times, providing destinations to explore when this pandemic is over, and a story to inspire the more inventive young among us.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Berta de Miguel, Immigrant Architect, Kent Diebolt, Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream, Tilbury House Publishers, Virginia Lorente

Book Review: Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl — Connecting Readers to the World in a New Way

Good essays about art help us learn to see. Wonderful essays about the artists in our lives — which means all the artists through history, because, as Peter Schjeldahl so eloquently puts it, “all art is contemporary” —- help us learn how to live.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Hot Cold Heavy Light: 100 Art Writings, Let’s See, Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, Writings on Art From The New Yorker

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