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Roberta Silman

Book Review: “Letters to Camondo” — An Essential Testament to Jewish Memory and History

This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Edmund de Waal, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Letters to Camondo, Roberta Silman

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2021

An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics, including some disappointments.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Bill-Marx, Clea Simon, Preston Gralla, Roberta Silman

Book Review: “The Wrong End of the Telescope” — A Stunning Achievement

This is a wonderful novel about a pressing humanitarian subject, Syrian refugees and the people who helped, as well as an exploration of identity and loss and triumph.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Rabih Alameddine, Roberta Silman, Syrian Refugees, The Wrong End of the Telescope

Book Review: Elizabeth Warren and Alexander S. Vindman — Gifted with a Moral Compass

The idea of America is elusive and sometimes, like right now, in danger of disappearing. That is why I have found myself turning for comfort to two books that can give us some perspective as to how to move forward.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Alexander S. Vindman, Elizabeth Warren, Here, Persist, Right Matters, Roberta Silman

Documentary Review: PBS’s “Hemingway” — Inside an American Legend

If you love fiction you should devote several hours to watching Hemingway. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have brought a special tenderness to this series, something deeper and more compelling than previous Burns documentaries.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Ernest Hemingway, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Roberta Silman

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2020

An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Bill-Marx, Ed Meek, Kai Maristed, Roberta Silman, Tess Lewis, Vince Czyz

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: “Secrets and Shadows” — Lessons of the Past

Roberta Silman’s engaging and deeply felt novel is a reminder of what it means to carry a historical burden on both a personal and national level.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Jewish fiction, Matt Hanson, Roberta Silman, Secrets and Shadows

The Annual Arts Fuse Holiday Gift Roundup — Tips From Enthusiasts

Wondering about what to give the arts and culture lover on your gift list? Some suggestions.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Review Tagged: Bill-Marx, Debra Cash, Helen Epstein, Jonathan Blumhofer, Matt Hanson, Michael Ullman, Peg Aloi, Roberta Silman, Timothy Francis Barry

Best Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: and the First Age of Terror, Assaf Gavron, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, Death by Water, Harvey Blume, Look Who's Back, Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life, Roberta Silman, the FBI, The Hilltop: A Novel, The Sympathizer, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam-War

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