Books
One wonders sometimes whether the weight of acclaim doesn’t place an author beyond critical reproach. The bandwagon effect.
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Just in time for Chanukah, here are two books that focus on the Jewish experience in America.
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Christian Wiman’s new book takes readers on an exhilarating, confounding, comforting, and surprisingly fresh intellectual journey.
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Robert Morgan has written a fascinating reconsideration of the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
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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.
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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.
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Melissa Broder’s new novel is as amusing as it is bewildering.
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This volume is a study of what can happen when two art forms engage in a mutually beneficial conversation.
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“All The Years Combined” is best approached as yet another voice in the ever burgeoning conversation about the evolution of the Grateful Dead.
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Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories are fatalistic in spirit, but not morose.
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