Books
This is a moving yet quite practical book about caring for an aging parent.
Some books published in 2016 I’m glad to have read.
Two books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.
The story of The Daily Show is interesting to fans, but it’s also relevant to understanding the evolution of political satire.
Fouad Laroui’s striking collection of stories describes a world “where everything is foreign.”
Mikita Brottman gets raw, often very funny, and unexpected responses to the masterpieces she puts before her prisoners.
Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.
These posthumous volumes provide ample proof that poet Philip Levine was far more than a proletariat troubadour.
Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.
A splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.
Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95