Word: yahrzeit
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...celebrity is a modern religion--"All fandom is a form of tunnel vision: warm and dark and infinite in one direction"--that doesn't make the idea less banal, nor does it obviate the need for emotional investment. At a climactic moment, facing his father's impending yahrzeit (the anniversary of his death), Alex still protests, "I don't feel anything." He could be speaking for us. The Autograph Man is ultimately an acrobatic but unmoving disquisition on an old question: What's in a name? The answer: not much, without an affecting story behind...