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Blake Bailey, Philip Roth, and the Biography That Backfired

Philip Roth has not had a lot luck with biographers. Late in his life, furiously aggrieved after the failure of his marriage to...

What I Imagine Strangers Think About Me When They See Me Reading a Book in Public

That lady is so charming and uncomplicated, sitting there quietly studying her e book.That lady may very well be on her telephone however...

The Reorientations of Edward Said

“Professor of Terror” was the headline on the quilt of the August, 1989, problem of Commentary. Inside, an article described Edward Said, then...

Briefly Noted

Second Nature, by Nathaniel Rich (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Tales of greed, corruption, and indifference abound in reporting on local weather change and...

Nigella Lawson Wants to Talk to People

“In cooking, as in writing, you must please yourself to please others,” Nigella Lawson wrote, in her first e-book, “How to Eat,” from...

Rewriting the Story of the Palestinian Radical

Tucked in the hills surrounding the metropolis of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, is a small spring that has been common right...

In Thomas Grattan’s Début Novel, Historical Fiction Gets Personal

The finish of the Cold War has allowed for a specific area of interest of historic fiction, transnational novels whose homosexual male protagonists...

“Bear” Is About Much More Than Having Sex with a Bear

For a teen-age lady who wished to know intercourse, the nineteen-eighties, in Canada, had been a huge, barren land. The Internet was not...

Cynthia Ozick, Smasher of Idols

Aspiring younger novelists usually really feel they’re in a race towards the clock to get themselves between exhausting covers and safely into print....

Opening Lines Rewritten for a Pandemic

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But, mostly, it was the worst of times. In fact, not...

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