Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel focuses on Josef (Joe) Kavalier and Sammy Clay (né Klayman), two artistically gifted cousins who create the masked comic-book hero, The Escapist, modeled on Superman, in New York City just before, during, and after World… Read More ›
At the same time that Zionism was crystallizing as a political movement, Hayim Bialik’s poetic output was coming into the limelight. Many of his readers believe that Bialik reached his artistic apex with his Poems of Wrath series, a shockingly… Read More ›
A deeply sympathetic and acutely realistic study of mental illness, The Elected Member won the Booker Prize in 1970, the second year the prize was awarded. The story unfolds through the point of view of a third-person omniscient narrator, allowing… Read More ›
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