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Non-fictionSeptember 20, 2007
Class Acts
The left’s literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.
J. Hoberman
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FictionMay 18, 2006
Supersize Misha
Absurdistan is a stunning encore for novelist Gary Shteyngart, both the avatar of a new Jewish-American literature and an inveterate Eastern European trickster.
J. Hoberman
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Books and IdeasAugust 11, 2005
The Twilight Zone
Though Bergelson wrote in Germany during the 1920s, his stories in Shadows of Berlin are more focused on the past apocalypse than the impending one.
J. Hoberman
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February 24, 2005
Jewtopia
Yiddish, a national language that never had a nation-state, may no longer have millions of speakers, but it remains contested territory nonetheless.
J. Hoberman
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Fine ArtNovember 24, 2004
Pop and Circumstance
You may recall the to-do occasioned two winters past by a certain shift in the mise-en-scène at the United Nations.
J. Hoberman
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BiographyNovember 20, 2003
Phantom of the White House
“We now live in a culture that’s hyperaware of the construction and manipulation of images in politics,” David Greenberg writes in Nixon’s Shadow.
J. Hoberman