The Struggle and the Scramble Cynthia Ozick’s writing hurtles forward with the force of anticipation and intellectual surprise. Antiquities by Cynthia Ozick April 8, 2021 issue
It Had to Be Her Like the stories of most notorious women, Alma Mahler’s is one of sex and power. She had a liking and a talent for both. Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler by Cate Haste January 16, 2020 issue
Heaven Can’t Wait Giacomo Sartori’s outrageously charming novel ‘I Am God’ I Am God by Giacomo Sartori, translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall April 18, 2019 issue
Bonfire of the Bathroom Vanities Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Lake Success’ Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart January 17, 2019 issue
Comic Noir Paul Goldberg’s ‘The Château’ is the perfect summer beach book for those of us too agonized by the world as it is to escape into a summer beach book. The Château by Paul Goldberg The Yid by Paul Goldberg August 16, 2018 issue
So Funny You Could Plotz Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber Feeling Jewish (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum March 8, 2018 issue
Unruly and Unerring Roxane Gay’s ‘Hunger’ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay August 17, 2017 issue
Weiner! A film about imperfection in all its human glory Weiner a documentary film directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg July 14, 2016 issue
‘Enthralling & Enraging’ A Gushing Fountain by Martin Walser, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer My Marriage by Jakob Wassermann, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann June 9, 2016 issue
‘A Beautiful, Mournful Novel’ Atticus Lish’s ‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish February 5, 2015 issue
In the Dark of the Museum The Alaskan brown bear rises up as tall as a brownstone and claws the bright wintery diorama sky; the vultures and hyenas and jackals hunch and squirm hideously in the light of their glass case. But all around them is darkness. The rooms that hold the Museum of Natural History’s famous dioramas are vast and dimly lit. September 27, 2014
The Splendid Monstress Wilton Barnhardt’s ‘Lookaway, Lookaway’ Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt October 10, 2013 issue
A Genius for Disaster Nathaniel Rich’s ‘Odds Against Tomorrow’ Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich April 25, 2013 issue
