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...singularity of Steinberg’s mode of writing helps explain the curious sight of many Jewish public and literary luminaries—Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick and Harold Kushner among them—all suddenly seizing the coattails of this rather obscure rabbi now six decades deceased, and adorning “The Prophet’s Wife” with glowing blurbs, introductions and even back-of-the-book commentaries. If there is a lesson beyond the theological to be derived from “The Prophet’s Wife,” it is that this...
...people said was good.” Nearly 500 of the NBCC’s member critics voted on the first “Best Recommended” list, plus additional finalists and winners of its yearly book awards. Writers like John Updike ’54 and Cynthia Ozick were able to vote for one book in each of three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. For their second list, released on Tuesday, the NBCC changed the name of the project to “The NBCC’s Good Reads.” Wednesday?...
...five novelists nominated for the National Book Award (NBA) this year have three things in common: they are all women, they all live in New York City, and until now almost nobody had heard of any of them. In a year with books by Russell Banks, Cynthia Ozick, Tom Wolfe, John Updike and Philip Roth, the fiction committee went for five relative unknowns. That caused a hue and cry in literary circles, although, admittedly, literary types love a good hue and cry, and it doesn't take much to get them going...
Each year The Best American Essays series collects some of the year’s most provocative writing under the supervision of such illustrious editors as Cynthia Ozick and Susan Sontag. This year, Anne Fadiman, editor of Phi Beta Kappa’s literary and intellectual quarterly The American Scholar, has put together a diverse selection of works on such subjects as driving lessons and animal rights. The Harvard Bookstore sponsors an event featuring Fadiman and a selection of the authors discussing the series and their respective works. 6 p.m. Free. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street...
Notable authors John H. Updike ’54, Don DeLillo, Cynthia Ozick and Joyce Carol Oates were on the committee that decided who would receive the award...