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The critic settles too comfortably too often on a familiar trope — Ireland’s sense of promise squelched.
Read MoreOscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.
Read MoreWhy didn’t a legal mind as brilliant as Richard Posner’s get to the Supreme Court? One suspects his candor and bluntness.
Read MoreFor a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.
Read MoreTwo books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.
Read MoreWhy did rock and roll become white? Music critic Jack Hamilton’s extraordinary new book provides a challenging answer.
Read MoreThe Annotated Poe invites readers to take a fresh look at Edgar Allan Poe and his far-ranging artistic legacy.
Read MoreOtto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”
Read MoreEditor Bharat Tandon guides us expertly through “Emma,” stopping along the way to augment the text by clarifying usages, concepts, and references that may stump the 21st-century reader.
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Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance
Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?
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