Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi is best known for her landmark books “Backlash” and “Stiffed,” both of which are penetrating investigations of the role of gender in American life.
A colleague of mine admonished me to include a warning in my review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s brilliant new novel, “Here I Am” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). And so I will.
Back in the day, broadcast journalists came in three varieties.
Who can tell the things that befell us in Birobidzhan?
There’s nothing surprising about a man or woman who muses about death in the later years of life.
“Indignation,” the new movie based on a novel by the immortal Philip Roth, opens with a skirmish in Korea in 1951 and ends with a scene so shocking that I cannot reveal it here, although readers of the book will know what’s coming.
A lawyerly question provides the starting point for a wholly remarkable new book by Philippe Sands, “East West Street: On the Origins of ‘Genocide’ and ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ ” (Knopf).
Let’s get one thing out of the way — yes, Susan Silverman is the sister of actors and comedians Sarah Silverman and Laura Silverman.
Politics is dominating not only headlines, but bookstores, as well, and some of the most intriguing author events in early summer will provide yet more opportunity to agonize over Trump, Sanders and Clinton.
\”Zionism” is a word that has come to mean many different things to different people, which is why veteran foreign correspondent Milton Viorst decided to take a fresh look at the origins and the destiny of the Zionist project in “Zionism: The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal” (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press).
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