Andrea Goldsmith
The Merchant of Venice is a troublesome play. I have seen productions that have played up the comic aspects to an absurd and irritating degree while confining Shylock to the stereotype that bears his name. Some interpretations exploit the play as anti-Semitic propaganda ...
... (read more)Berlin for Jews: A twenty-first-century companion by Leonard Barkan
Originally published in German, Albrecht Dümling’s The Vanished Musicians: Jewish refugees in Australia (Peter Lang), a fascinating compendium of Jewish musicians who found refuge in Australia in the 1930s and 1940s, is now available in Australian Diana K. Weekes’s excellent translation ...
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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical memory and its ironies by David Rieff
It is a Hollywood staple: C meets T; they fall in love; obstacles stand in their way (a husband, a boyfriend, but most particularly the attitudes of the 1950s); obstacles are mostly overcome, and C and T march happily into the future together. In Todd Haynes's film, Cate Blanchett plays Carol, a ...
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Early success is no guarantee of a book’s continued availability or circulation. Some major and/or once-fashionable authors recede from public consciousness, and in some cases go out of print. We invited some writers and critics to identity novelists who they feel should be better known.
Susan Sontag by Daniel Schreiber, trans. David Dollenmayer. & Susan Sontag by Jerome Boyd Maunsell
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Susan Sontag by Daniel Schreiber, trans. David Dollenmayer. & Susan Sontag by Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Books of the Year is always one our most popular features. Find out what our 41 contributors liked most this year – and why.
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