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Book Review: “Another Life” — Curing Writer’s Block

September 17, 2018
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This slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.

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Book Review: “Never Anyone But You” — Fiction to Treasure

June 4, 2018
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Rupert Thomson’s Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.

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Book Review: “Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend”

November 2, 2017
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De Stefano tracks the evolution of a cabinet-maker’s daughter into a famously bombastic, chain-smoking political reporter and author.

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Book Review: “To the Back of Beyond” — Extreme Ambiguity

September 21, 2017
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Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.

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Book Review: Gershom Scholem — A Rich and Complicated Jewish Life

May 2, 2017
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George Prochnik’s biography of Gershom Scholem is flawed, but well worth reading, especially for those struggling with their Jewish and Israeli identities.

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Book Review: “Nicotine” — A Fresh Take on Addiction

February 27, 2017
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A beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer’s lifelong relationship with cigarettes.

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Book Review: “The Butcher’s Trail” — A Masterful Account of Tracking Down Balkan War Criminals

January 18, 2016
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Anybody who has the good sense to pick up a copy of this book will find it instantly fascinating.

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Book Review: “Happy Are the Happy” — You Can’t Get There from Here

March 17, 2015
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Yasmina Reza’s dollhouse of a novel is a miniaturist’s miracle.

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Book Review: “Blood Brothers” — Down-and-Out in Germany’s Zero Hour

March 10, 2015
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Anyone interested in understanding Europe in the 20th century, or in the fascinating metropolis that is Berlin, or in a riveting depiction of down-and-out youth who refuse to surrender to the system–will want to pick up Blood Brothers.

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Book Review: “A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz” — Destined to Become a Classic

February 23, 2015
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Göran Rosenberg has written a calm yet passionate account of events after Auschwitz, a memoir marked by great intelligence and equally great emotional intensity.

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