Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.
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Book Review: Richard A. Posner — A Rare Judge Who Tells Us How He Really Feels
Why didn’t a legal mind as brilliant as Richard Posner’s get to the Supreme Court? One suspects his candor and bluntness.
Book Review: Polish Poet Czesław Miłosz — Master of the Telling Detail
For a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.
Book Review: “The Menorah” and “The Book of Aron”
Two books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.
Book Review: “Just Around Midnight” — A Revelatory Look at Race and 1960s Rock and Roll
Why did rock and roll become white? Music critic Jack Hamilton’s extraordinary new book provides a challenging answer.
Book Interview: Edgar Allan Poe — America’s Maestro of Suffering
The Annotated Poe invites readers to take a fresh look at Edgar Allan Poe and his far-ranging artistic legacy.
Book Review: “Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death” — A New Language for Living with Auschwitz
Otto 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.”
Book Review: Jane Austen’s “Emma” — Aptly Annotated
Editor 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.
Book Review: Annotating Jane — An Illuminating New Edition of Austen’s Persuasion
This invaluable addition to the Austen literature offers two for the price of one: a beautifully designed and printed edition of the novel many consider her best and a parallel critical commentary that deepens our understanding and opens up a rich, textured view of her world and time.
Book Review — A Wilde Child Restored: Dorian Gray Uncensored
Editor Nicholas Frankel is right to argue that familiarity with Oscar Wilde’s original manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray deepens its vision, suggesting that the 1891 novel is a far less morally reassuring tale than readers have thought. The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde. Edited by Nicholas Frankel. […]