Paul Buhle
By Paul Buhle
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Culture Comic Artist Remembers, Sort of
Stop Forgetting To Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz By Peter Kuper Crown, 208 pages, $19.95. Every Forward reader, it is safe to say, knows Ben Katchor’s work, and almost as many would recognize the contributions of Art Spiegelman. Since the 2000 publication of Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” the in-house…
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Culture Labor’s Loves Lost
Paul Buhle is a senior lecturer in history and American civilization at Brown University. A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists In New York By Tony Michels Harvard University Press, 352 pages, $27.95. * * *| The tale of Jewish socialists on Manhattan’s Lower East Side offers one of those urban legends, alive with so…
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Culture Elegy for a Fighter
Barney Ross By Douglas Century Nextbook (Schocken), 205 pages, $19.95. * * *| If attitudes toward Jewish boxers do not offer an all-encompassing symbol of continuing change in the social and cultural tastes of American Jewry, they probably come close. One of the many revealing anecdotes in this marvelously insightful study of the immigrant generation’s…
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Culture Coming of Age, in Frames
The Quitter By Harvey Pekar Art by Dean Haspiel with Lee Loughridge Vertigo, unpaginated, $19.99. * * *| Anyone who has seen the 2003 award-winning film “American Splendor” or watched Harvey Pekar’s confrontations with David Letterman late at night back in the 1990s is almost certain to conflate or confuse the real-life Pekar with one…
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