Helen Epstein
Twilight of Democracy made me yearn (uncharacteristically) for hard scientific data to supplement Anne Applebaum’s punditry about the pundits.
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This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen, one that I plan to view again and again.
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This glimpse into the relationship of two American Jewish writers makes for good reading during the pandemic: an intelligent, gracefully written memoir of friendship.
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From the first page of Martha Ackmann’s new book on Emily Dickinson, you know you’re reading something entirely different.
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Vivian Gornick is an elegist of the transformative experience of reading and writing, what she calls “the companionateness” of books.
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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.
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No author has addressed the issue of sexual assault so much on her own terms, and in such a personal and powerful way.
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Playwright Rachel Bonds has written an often-hilarious script which nonetheless deals with such serious and widespread issues as spousal and child abandonment, drug addiction, the right to death with dignity, and same-sex adoption of children.
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On the Exhale is one of the most powerful and uncompromising one-person shows I’ve ever seen.
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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.
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