Damon Galgut: The Promise
The latest addition to my website is Damon Galgut's The Promise, the second in my reading of 2021 African prize winners. This book won the Booker Prize. It tells the…
Joseph Roth: Hiob (Job, the Story of a Simple Man)
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Hiob (Job, the Story of a Simple Man). This is a modern (late 19th/early20th century) updating of the story of the…
Olga Tokarczuk: Księgi Jakubowe (Books of Jacob)
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Księgi Jakubowe (Books of Jacob). When you are self-isolating from a virus, a nearly one thousand page long novel by a…
Patrick Modiano: Dora Bruder(Dora Bruder; The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder)
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder(Dora Bruder; The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder). Our narrator (presumably Modiano himself) comes across a 1941 newspaper announcement about a…
Patrick Modiano: La Place de l’Étoile (La Place de l’Étoile)
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's La Place de l’Étoile (La Place de l’Étoile). This was Modiano's first novel, published when he was twenty-two. It was a…
Daša Drndić: Doppelgänger
The latest addition to my website is Daša Drndić's Doppelgänger. This book actually has two novellas: Doppelgänger and Pupi. Doppelgänger is about an elderly couple who meet on New Year's…
Shalom Auslander: Hope: A Tragedy
The latest addition to my website is Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy, one of the funniest books I have read in a long while. It is very politically incorrect, featuring…
Jewish literature and the Soviet Union
If you ask most people who was the greatest criminal of the twentieth century, nine times out of ten Adolf Hitler would top the list and with very good reason.…