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book reviews
Joel Grey: More than just a master of ‘Cabaret’
Jewish Journal
April 27, 2016
In “Master of Ceremonies” (Flatiron Books), Joel Grey has written an unexpectedly exquisite memoir about the life he has led as a closeted gay man growing up during a time when being gay was fraught with excessive difficulties and danger.
Growing up half Middle-Eastern
Jonathan Kirsch
December 16, 2015
At this fraught moment in history, a cartoonist named Riad Sattouf has achieved best-seller status in France with a memoir in the form of a comic book with the provocative title, “The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984.”
Miranda Richmond Mouillot’s fascination with an ancestral divorce
Jewish Journal
July 13, 2015
Acknowledging her own anger frightens Miranda Richmond Mouillot more than she realizes, as we discover in her new book, “A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War and a Ruined House in France” (Crown).
Carter, Begin and Sadat — Nostalgia for hope of peace
Jonathan Kirsch
October 14, 2014
Lawrence Wright, a staff writer for The New Yorker, is attracted to moments of high drama and historical significance.
Thrilling days of yesteryear
Jonathan Kirsch
June 11, 2014
Nothing links the three books described below except that each, in its own way, is so charming that I couldn’t resist opening it up and, having done so, couldn’t put it down.
Shining a new light on the Jewish response to Christmas
Jewish Journal
November 30, 2012
From Kung Pao kosher comedy to a swinging Mardi Gras version of the “Dreidel” song, two new Chanukah season releases explore the intriguing, delightful and sometimes perplexing ways in which American Jews have responded to Christmas.
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