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Helen Epstein

Book Review: “From Left to Right” — The Story of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz

This biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz performs the invaluable function of gathering relevant documents and drafting a narrative that rescues a fascinating historian from oblivion. But it does not add much to the history of the New York intellectuals.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: and the Politics of Jewish History, From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The New York Intellectuals

Book Review: “Fallout” — Memorably Detailing the Defeat of the Hiroshima Cover-Up

I heartily recommend M.M. Blume’s excellent Fallout, which ably synthesizes large amounts of archival, historical, and biographical material from three continents.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: atomic bomb, Culture Vulture, Fallout, Hiroshima, Lesley M. M. Blume

Life Commentary: A Cultural Journalist Dealing with Cancer During Covid

It’s never a good time to be diagnosed with cancer, but June 10th, 2020, was among the worst. By that day, 7,454 people had died of COVID-19 in my state of Massachusetts.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: AK Goodman, COVID, endometrial cancer, Mass General Hospital

Book Review: “Twilight of Democracy” — A Slim Investigation of the “Clerks”

Twilight of Democracy made me yearn (uncharacteristically) for hard scientific data to supplement  Anne Applebaum’s punditry about the pundits.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anne Applebaum, authoritarianism, Culture Vulture, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Film Review: “There Are No Lions in Tel Aviv” — The Story of Rabbi Doolittle

This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen, one that I plan to view again and again.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, documentary, Duki Dror, There Are No Lions in Tel Aviv

Book Review: “Here We Are” — Philip Roth’s Boswell

This glimpse into the relationship of two American Jewish writers makes for good reading during the pandemic: an intelligent, gracefully written memoir of friendship.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Benjamin Taylor, Culture Vulture, Here We Are, Philip Roth

Book Review: “These Fevered Days” — Exploring an Enigma

From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Emily Dickinson, Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Book Review: Vivian Gornick’s “Unfinished Business” — Remembrance of Pages Past

Vivian Gornick is an elegist of the transformative experience of reading and writing, what she calls “the companionateness” of books.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, Vivian Gornick

Book Review: “Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his Closest Friends” — A Frothy, Gossip-filled Bauble

If you are a fan of Mike Nichols’ large and elegant body of work, you’ll regret as I did that the authors did not take the time to create the kind of book he deserved.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Life isn’t Everything, Mike Nichols

Book Review: “Know My Name: a memoir’ — Required Reading

No author has addressed the issue of sexual assault so much on her own terms, and in such a personal and powerful way.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Chanel Miller, Know My Name: a memoir

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