Adam Kirsch is a Senior Editor at The New Republic and a Contributing Editor to Tablet. His most recent book is Why Trilling Matters. (May 2013)
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‘One Abraham or Three?’
May 23, 2013
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
by Jon D. Levenson
Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch
by Yair Zakovitch, translated from the Hebrew by Valerie Zakovitch
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On Bellow’s ‘Henderson the Rain King’
December 6, 2012
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The New World of William Carlos Williams
February 23, 2012
“Something Urgent I Have to Say to You”: The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams
by Herbert Leibowitz
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
by Wendell Berry
By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916–1959
by William Carlos Williams, compiled and edited by Jonathan Cohen, with a foreword by Julio Marzán
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The Brothers Mann—and Nelly
October 27, 2011
House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
by Evelyn Juers
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The Darkest Comedian
February 10, 2011
My Prizes: An Accounting
by Thomas Bernhard, translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway
Prose
by Thomas Bernhard, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers
Ritter, Dene, Voss by Thomas Bernhard, a production by One Little Goat Theater Company, directed by Adam Seelig
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Germany: The Poet After the Fall
October 14, 2010
The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays
by Durs Grünbein, edited by Michael Eskin and translated from the German by John Crutchfield, Michael Hofmann, and Andrew Shields
Descartes’ Devil: Three Meditations
by Durs Grünbein, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems
by Durs Grünbein, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
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General von Hammerstein & Hitler: An Exchange
October 14, 2010
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Can We Judge General von Hammerstein?
June 10, 2010
The Silences of Hammerstein: A German Story
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers
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The Supreme Aristocrat on Trial
May 13, 2010
The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby, Volume 1: Ascent, 1799–1851
By Angus Hawkins
The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby, Volume 2: Achievement, 1851–1869
By Angus Hawkins
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Poets Haunted by Poets
April 8, 2010
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound
by Christopher Ricks
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He Kept Marx Going
October 22, 2009
Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
by Tristram Hunt
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‘The House of Wittgenstein’
July 16, 2009
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The Wittgenstein Illusion
June 11, 2009
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
by Alexander Waugh
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On the Edge
April 30, 2009
The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900–1914
by Philipp Blom
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Wagner & Jews
February 12, 2009
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The Torch of Karl Kraus
October 23, 2008
The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioningin Fin-de-Siècle Europe
by Paul Reitter