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Roberta Silman

Book Review: Irish Author Claire Keegan Hits Her Stride

In Claire Keegan’s fiction, each sentence matters and each, sometimes very ordinary, action has real consequences.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Claire Keegan, Foster, Roberta Silman, Small Things Like These

Book Review: Colette’s “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri” — Tales of Love and Morality

A superb new translation in one volume of the two Chéri novellas, regarded as Colette’s masterwork.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Cheri, colette, Rachel Careau, Roberta Silman, The End of Cheri

Book Appreciation: A.B. Yehoshua’s “Mr. Mani” — A Great Work of Fiction

A.B. Yehoshua was anything but a provincial Israeli writer. He was literary giant whose imaginative gift was so striking and diverse that you never knew what he would do next.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: A.B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin, Mr Mani, Roberta Silman, The Extra, The Retrospective, The Tunnel

Book Review: “Hemingway’s Widow” — Not a Pretty Story

We now have a book that virtually closes the circle on Hemingway’s women, a biography that will be treasured by the author’s fans and scholars.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway’s Widow, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Pegasus Books, Timothy Christian

Book Review: “Letters to Camondo” — An Essential Testament to Jewish Memory and History

This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Edmund de Waal, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Letters to Camondo, Roberta Silman

Book Review: Elizabeth Warren and Alexander S. Vindman — Gifted with a Moral Compass

The idea of America is elusive and sometimes, like right now, in danger of disappearing. That is why I have found myself turning for comfort to two books that can give us some perspective as to how to move forward.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Alexander S. Vindman, Elizabeth Warren, Here, Persist, Right Matters, Roberta Silman

Documentary Review: PBS’s “Hemingway” — Inside an American Legend

If you love fiction you should devote several hours to watching Hemingway. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have brought a special tenderness to this series, something deeper and more compelling than previous Burns documentaries.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Ernest Hemingway, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Roberta Silman

Book Review: Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” — Closing the Circle, Perfectly

This is a great work, more linear than Tom Stoppard’s earlier dramas, yet filled with such intelligence and compassion that it will be read and seen for years and years and, perhaps, over time be regarded as his richest, most haunting play.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Holocaust, Leopoldstadt, tom-stoppard

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

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