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 ...
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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 ...
Indicting the Nazi SS — in 1933
Hitler’s First Victims: The Quest for Justice, by Timothy Ryback, Knopf, $26.95 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Stranger than fiction: In ...
An exhaustive portrait of evil
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, by Bettina Stangneth, translated by Ruth Martin, Knopf, 579 pages, ...
Englander’s Jewish stories
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Nathan Englander continues to go from strength to strength, packing new proof of his distinctive talent ...
A history of the Old City
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Jerusalem: The Biography is monumental, not only for size but for thoroughness, which ...
