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Helen Epstein

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

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Jian Ghomeshi, Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley, Women Talking

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

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.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Dinners with Ruth, Helen Epstein, Nina Totenberg

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

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

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

Book Review: “Mike Nichols: A Life” — Portrait of a Protean Artist

This nearly 600-page text is a closely detailed, comprehensive portrait by a biographer riveted, as many of us are, by his charismatic subject.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Culture Vulture, Helen Epstein, Mark Harris, Mike Nichols: A Life

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

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