By Susan Comninos
In his dark, literate and startlingly compassionate memoir, James Lasdun explores being harassed by a former student whose writing he championed.
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By Susan Comninos
Daniel Smith experiences the constant worrying one might expect of an air-traffic controller, a wartime president or a brain surgeon. But he is none of the above.
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By Susan Comninos
Jewish comic Dan Zevin is making hay out of his life progression from slacker to spouse to smitten dad. He’s turned his fumbling path through fatherhood into a book and more.
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By Susan Comninos
Lucette Lagnado’s second memoir retells her family’s story from Cairo to Brooklyn, but this time the story is told from her mother’s perspective.
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By Susan Comninos
The unswerving religious focus of emerging American poet Yossi Huttler, 45, will likely limit the audience for his debut book, “
Lakol Z’man” (“A Time for Everything”) — and that’s a shame. In it, the author, who is pious in his Jewish practice, evokes
piyyutim, Hebrew liturgical verse. But he also alludes to a more varied literary framework.
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