Books
One wonders sometimes whether the weight of acclaim doesn’t place an author beyond critical reproach. The bandwagon effect.
Just in time for Chanukah, here are two books that focus on the Jewish experience in America.
Christian Wiman’s new book takes readers on an exhilarating, confounding, comforting, and surprisingly fresh intellectual journey.
Robert Morgan has written a fascinating reconsideration of the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
A new interpretation of an old fable and a newly reissued fairy tale provide delightful reading for kids — and perhaps good holiday gifts as well.
Biographer Judith Tick is reverent about the singer without falling into hagiography: with honest scrutiny, she asserts the enduring value of Ella Fitzgerald’s achievement for generations to come.
Melissa Broder’s new novel is as amusing as it is bewildering.
This volume is a study of what can happen when two art forms engage in a mutually beneficial conversation.
“All The Years Combined” is best approached as yet another voice in the ever burgeoning conversation about the evolution of the Grateful Dead.
Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories are fatalistic in spirit, but not morose.
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