Jennifer Gilmore
By Jennifer Gilmore
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Culture Claire Messud did not realize she was writing such a prescient novel
'This Strange Eventful History' is a sort of generational family saga, but its consideration of occupation and diaspora seems particularly timely
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Culture ‘My head was exploding — how could one woman do this to another woman?’
Helen Schulman explains the intersecting lives and shocking betrayals in her latest novel 'Lucky Dogs'
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Music Is this a vision of heaven or is it a Taylor Swift concert?
For one fan, his parents and 80,000 others, a blissful revelation — from one era to the next
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Books Still pining for John McCain, a ‘Big Guy’ seeks to take back his country
In A.M. Homes' novel 'The Unfolding,' the Jewish author imagines a life antithetical to her own
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Culture The second time Lou Reed paid homage to his Jewish mentor
Inspired in part by all the Jewish artists on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. You can find the whole list and accompanying essays here. The poet and writer Delmore Schwartz, who at 25 published one of…
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Culture Almost 900 pages about Philip Roth — and yet the crucial part goes missing
Philip Roth, The Biography By Blake Bailey Norton, 896 pages $40 Philip Roth. Love him or hate him. Me? I loved him. As is the case for many Jewish American novelists, his work informed mine in countless ways. Also, I worked in the twilight of the New York publishing era Roth came up in. Though…
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Culture ‘Will men keep explaining Dylan to me into eternity?’
To be a Bob Dylan fan has too often meant occupying 'a world of men.'
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Culture Philip Roth Dies, And Part Of Our America Dies With Him
I’m moving again and my books are packed up and sealed in boxes. Just two days ago I took all the Roth books down from my highest shelf: The first edition of “Portnoy’s Complaint,” the first book I gave to my boyfriend, now my husband, twenty years ago at the Shark Bar in Soho; “American…
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