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What Has He Done To Deserve This?

By Susan Comninos

What Has He Done To Deserve This?
In his dark, literate and startlingly compassionate memoir, James Lasdun explores being harassed by a former student whose writing he championed.Read More


Shushing the Monkeys in His Mind

By Susan Comninos

Shushing the Monkeys in His Mind
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.Read More


From Dude to Dad

By Susan Comninos

From Dude to Dad
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.Read More


Lucette Lagnado’s Second Memoir of Cairo and Brooklyn Concentrates on Her Mother

By Susan Comninos

Lucette Lagnado’s Second Memoir of Cairo and Brooklyn Concentrates on Her Mother
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.Read More


Yossi Huttler's Poetry of Fate and Faith

By Susan Comninos

Yossi Huttler's Poetry of Fate and Faith
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.Read More







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