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Roberta Silman

Book Review: “Franci’s War” — A Very Relevant Holocaust Memoir

Here we have the story of a young Czech woman who could not only take a piece of fabric and shape it into a gorgeous dress, but could also take her experiences during WWII and shape them into a compelling memoir.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Woman’s Story of Survival, Franci Rabinek Epstein, Franci’s War, Helen Epstein, Holocaust, memoir

Book Review: “Tightrope” — A Wake-up Call for America

What makes this book so necessary is that these are writers willing to state realities that members of both parties prefer to keep under the rug.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn, Tightrope

Book Review: “A Grief Sublime” — A Lasting Testament to the Power of Words to Sustain and Heal

Here is why you have to read this book: It gives proof to my faith that those beautiful lines and paragraphs created through the ages can comfort in present distress and continue to do so as one heals.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Grief Sublime, Beth Robbins

Book Review: “Blowout” — A Devastating Vision of What is at Stake

This is a brilliant book that comes at a propitious time in our country’s history.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Blowout, Rachel Maddow

Book Review: “Lampedusa” — Writing “The Leopard”

Steven Price creates a mid-twentieth century world that is filled with the same kind of conflicts that Lampedusa himself confronted in writing The Leopard, his great novel about nineteenth century Italy.

By: Roberta Siman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Lampedusa, Prince Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa, Steven Price

Theater Review: “Time Stands Still” — After Trauma

In this seemingly modest, but beautifully constructed and deeply moving play, Donald Margulies has tackled some of the thorniest questions of our time.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Donald Margulies, Nicole Ricciard, Shakespeare and Co, Time Stands Still

Book Review: A Memorial to Lucette Lagnado’s Two Remarkable Memoirs

To have such a remarkably courageous voice as Lucette Lagnado’s silenced forever at such a young age is, simply, not fair.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Egypt, Jewish, Lucette Lagnado, The Arrogant Years, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

Book Review: “In Extremis” — A Flawed Heroine

In Extremis is required reading not only for anyone interested in war, but for anyone interested in how an unusual woman makes her way in the world.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: biography, In Extremis, knopf, Lindsey Hilsum, Marie Colvin

Book Review: “Prague Spring” — The Fragility of Freedom

This consistently interesting novel adds an unforgettable dimension to an historical event about which we thought we knew all there was to know.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Other Press, Prague Spring, Simon Mawer

Book Review: Anthony Powell — Among the Most Modern of 20th Century English Writers

Although Anthony Powell’s stock has gone down since he died in 2000, I hope that this new biography will spark interest in A Dance to the Music of Time.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anthony Powell, Dancing to the Music of Time, Hilary Spurling

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