By Mark Oppenheimer
Shalom Auslander’s major theme in his new novel is the burden of the Jewish past. There is no symbol of that burden more powerful than Anne Frank.
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By Mark Oppenheimer
Kim Kardashian has no particular talent, yet she is one of the most recognized people on the planet. Joseph Epstein’s new book explains how gossip became so powerful.
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By Mark Oppenheimer
Lee Siegel argues in his new book that American society is not as serious as it used be. But he spends more time provoking readers with cheap potshots than offering a clear narrative.
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By Mark Oppenheimer
Former New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb’s new collection of book reviews is a pleasure to read, but should dish more dirt, Mark Oppenheimer writes.
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By Mark Oppenheimer
‘The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time,” Judith Shulevitz’s look at the Judeo-Christian practice of setting aside every seventh day for rest, is both an extended exercise in public history and a spiritual autobiography. Discourses about the roots of the Sabbatarian tradition; the various theologies, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish, that recommend it; the representations of it in literature; and the sociological ideas that help explain it are interlaced with personal reflections detailing Shulevitz’s own slow, reluctant history of celebrating the day of rest.
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