Great House

Nicole Krauss, Great House (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010). 289 pp. $24.95. Last December, when I surveyed the year’s best Jewish books for...

Borders on the edge

I am not happy that my prediction about Borders seems to be coming true . No one who lives by books is happy to see any bookstore close its...

“Most essential”? “Jewish fiction”?

Yesterday Jewcy unveiled the “50 Most Essential Works Of Jewish Fiction Of The Last 100 Years.” Jason Diamond, who compiled the miscellany,...

Five Books of Reagan

Now that even Obama ♥ Ronald Reagan, according to today’s Time magazine cover , it may be safe to celebrate the centennial of the fortieth...

A letter from Nachman

NOTE : Jonathan Rosen, the novelist and editor of Nextbook, passes along the following letter, which he received the other day. “I had it ty...

Burnt Books

My review of Burnt Books , a dual biography of Kafka and the Breslover rebbe by the Jubu hipster Rodger Kamenetz, is out in the February C...