Helen Epstein

Book Review: “Nobody’s Girl” — An Emotionally Wrenching Horror Story

December 13, 2025
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Virginia Giuffre’s memoir is a grim indictment of Jeffrey Epstein and the cruel and powerful men (most of them still unnamed in public) who were his clients.

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Book Review: India Through a Daughter’s Eyes: The Turbulent Journey of “Mother Mary Comes to Me”

October 4, 2025
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This account of a formidable mother and equally formidable daughter is an absorbing read that packed the memoir form to the gills and demanded my attention.

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Opera Preview: “The Seasons” — A Fascinating and Disturbing Weather Report

March 8, 2025
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“I wanted, with this opera, to see if audiences and collaborators could feel something about our changing weather, in an artistic space.”

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Book Review: The Many Faces of Elaine May

February 7, 2025
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This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.

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Book Review: Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gretchen Whitmer — Disappointing Guides

August 24, 2024
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The rewards are slight in new politically-minded books by a pair of shrewd and perceptive women.

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Music Feature: “Shared Spaces” — Breaking the Silence

May 9, 2023
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So much of David Sakura’s narrative in Shared Spaces reminded me of the stories of other traumatized groups.

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

January 18, 2023
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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.

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Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive

September 30, 2022
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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.

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

May 11, 2022
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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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Book Review: “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss” — A Brave and Heartrending Story

March 15, 2022
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This is a profoundly disturbing memoir about a subject that hits close to home for many readers.

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