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This is not just a story of a plucky girl succeeding; in weaving her complicated story and giving credit to those who helped her to understand how to think critically and how to develop her own moral philosophy, Sonia Sotomayor never forgets that luck and serendipity also play a part.
Read MoreIn “Gatz,” F Scott Fitzgerald’s words come at the audience like bullets because they are so relevant to so much of American life today. And create the kind of catharsis, that peculiar combination of pity and fear, that is the mark of truly great theater.
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This is a brilliant book that explains, with engaging clarity, why our politics have reached their current frightening nadir.
Read MoreYou may have read similar earlier works, but Dominic Smith’s novel is in a class of its own.
Read MoreGeorge Prochnik’s biography of Gershom Scholem is flawed, but well worth reading, especially for those struggling with their Jewish and Israeli identities.
Read MoreDeath By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.
Read MoreA splendid, absorbing read in which you feel as if you’ve been dropped onto the set of a Mozart opera.
Read MoreAminatta Forna has given us a novel that belies its modest premise, a book about how the human mind protects itself by not knowing, yet sometimes, due to unexpected circumstances, comes to terms with what it thought it could not.
Read MoreFor anyone interested in classical music, “Motherless Child” is a novel to be savored. And there is no doubt that Zeitlin has gotten those details right. She is the widow of the great violinist and teacher, Zvi Zeitlin, who died this past May at 90.
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Book Review: “Erebus” — A Brilliant Hybrid That Bears Witness to Tragedy
Erebus is wonderful, original book that defies categorization.
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