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Book Review: A Brilliant “Homeland Elegies” — Indispensable Witness

What Ayad Akhtar reveals, with stunning detail and a passion and an urgency rarely seen in American fiction, is that his is a story marked by a loneliness similar to that found in Melville, Dreiser, and T.S. Eliot, among others, and that puts him squarely in their company.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elergies

Literary Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” at 100

I hope this centennial will inspire readers to immerse themselves in this enormously important, rich, and vibrant work.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Book Review: A.B. Yehoshua’s “The Tunnel” — A Serious Romp about an Aging Brain

Exuberant is the right word for A.B. Yehoshua’s new novel, not only because of the story’s pile up of characters and events, but also for its prose.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A.B. Yehoshua, Hebrew, Israeli writing, The Tunnel

Book Review: “Invisible Years” — A Book for the Ages

Invisible Years is — simultaneously — an indispensable source and a distinguished work of art.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Family’s Collected Account of Separation and Survival during the Holocaust in the Netherlands, Daphne Geismar, Invisible Years, Roberta Silman

Book Review: “Immigrant Architect — Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream,” a Splendid Book about Design for all Ages

A book to cheer you in these challenging times, providing destinations to explore when this pandemic is over, and a story to inspire the more inventive young among us.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Berta de Miguel, Immigrant Architect, Kent Diebolt, Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream, Tilbury House Publishers, Virginia Lorente

Book Review: Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl — Connecting Readers to the World in a New Way

Good essays about art help us learn to see. Wonderful essays about the artists in our lives — which means all the artists through history, because, as Peter Schjeldahl so eloquently puts it, “all art is contemporary” —- help us learn how to live.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Hot Cold Heavy Light: 100 Art Writings, Let’s See, Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, Writings on Art From The New Yorker

Book Review: “The Planter of Modern Life” — A Biography of an Agricultural Visionary

Here is a splendid biography from which you will learn things you never suspected, a book that will renew your faith in passion and what Louis Bromfield called those peculiarly American traits: integrity and idealism.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Louis Bromfield, Stephen Heyman, The Planter of Modern Life

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

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