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Essay Rebecca Miller on Gluckel of Hameln This week on the Visiting Scribe, Rebecca Miller will be sharing texts that shed light on Jewish life in eighteenth-century France, the setting of her new novel,… Rebecca Miller May 13, 2013
Nonfiction The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris Jonathan Kirsch
Nonfiction Dressing Modern Maternity: The Frankfurt Sisters of Dallas and the Page Boy Label Kay Goldman
Essay Why it Matters that Marshall was Never Nominated for the Supreme Court Earlier this week, M. M. Silver wrote about the riches in Louis Marshall’s archive and explored why it took so long for someone to write a full-length biography of… M. M. Silver March 1, 2013
Nonfiction The Road to the Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way Munro and Stanley Price
Nonfiction In Search of the Spiritual: Gabriel Marcel, Psychoanalysis and the Sacred Paul Marcus
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Oral Pleasure Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller, published last month by Grove/Atlantic, Jerzy Kosinski’s late widow, Kikki, collects… Naomi Firestone-Teeter January 3, 2013
