Understanding the planet of the Americans
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you’ve ever wondered what America would feel like to someone from another planet, A Beginner’s ...
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Multigenerational tale of love and despair
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Lauren Fox's sad, engaging Send for Me deftly reverses familiar Shoah stories. Fox writes from the ...
Dying once is enough
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER How Simon Stranger’s last name is pronounced in Norwegian, I don’t know, but pronounced in English, ...
A mourner’s tale
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER How much repentance is enough, and how does one compensate when profits from dishonesty were used ...
Ben Marcus: A book of imaginary woes
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER If you like clever short stories about unhappy, frustrated or lonely people, you'll love Notes from ...
An unexpected ending from Nathan Englander
Dinner at the Center of the Earth, by Nathan Englander, Knopf, 252 pages, $26.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Nathan Englander ...
Kushner’s uplifting message
Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned about Life, by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Knopf, 171 pages, $23.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER ...
When Saul Bellow taught at the U of M
In the May 8 edition, Neal Gendler reviewed a volume of Saul Bellow’s nonfiction writing. Readers interested in the illustrious ...
Does terrorism work?
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947, by Bruce Hoffman, Knopf, 618 pages, $35 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER After reading ...
A mother’s personal struggles
The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family, by Roger Cohen, Knopf, $27.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
