A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
The Family Mashber (called "a Yiddish masterpiece" by Cynthia Ozick) is the book of the month at The Book Depository (which offers free international shipping). Macy Halford at The New Yorker blog Bookbench, roots for "a movie version of [The...
The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Cynthia Ozick is most recently the author of Dictation. Condition of the Show: Overtaken by a tyrannical dictator. Author: Cynthia Ozick Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: I wanted to ask you about “Dictation,” the title story. This was very interesting to me for a number of reasons. Because here you have two writers, Henry James [...]
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Over at TNR, Cynthia Ozick considers Lionel Trilling's unfinished novel, soon to be published by Columbia University Press and discussed on this blog here: The breadth of Trilling's renown can hardly be understood today. He was a professor of literature at a major university who was at the same time a "figure" (a term he honored) in the culture at large. And what was he really? An essayist; and it...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
It's not brand-new stuff, but anything of Cynthia Ozick's is worth grabbing; so also her about-to-be-published story-collection, our review of which is the most recent addition to the complete review, Dictation.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
Collected Stories, By Cynthia Ozick (Phoenix £10.99)
The New Centrist (Free subscription) | 25/11/2007
The New York Sun's Alex Kirsch describes a conference in Manhattan held by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (Camera). The conference, “Israel's Jewish Defamers,” included Cynthia Ozick on Michael Lerner, Kenneth Levin critiquing post-Zionism and Alex Safian discussing recent articles in the New York Review of Books and London Review [...]
Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 16/11/2007
Fantastic news! Ruth Wisse, Cynthia Ozick, Victor Davis Hanson and Roger Hertog are among those presented yesterday with the 2007 National Humanities Medals. Rick has the story at Jewish Current Issues. I'm saving this quote from Wisse's essay, "At Home in Jerusalem" (2003) as a reminder. The choice of Israel as scapegoat and target of the longest war in modern history has put more intense pressure...
