S. Y. Agnon (1888–1970) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Among his works that have been translated into English are
A Simple Story,
In the Heart of the Seas, and
Shira.
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S. Y. Agnon: Only Yesterday
When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid historical reconstruction …
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Adam Kirsch: The Global Novel
What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization?
In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century’s best-known writers—including Margaret Atwood …
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Kirsch Adam Kirsch: Why Trilling Matters
The distinguished poet and critic argues for the abiding relevance of a great literary mind of the twentieth century Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s …
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Kirsch Adam Kirsch: Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?
From one of today’s keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two Adam Kirsch is one of today’s finest literary critics. This …
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Adam Kirsch: The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
A collection of bold, insightful, and controversial essays by “a poetry critic of the very first order” (New York Times). Over the last ten years, through essays in
The New Republic,
The New Yorker …
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Adam Kirsch: Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
A collection of essays from a “great poet-critic-intellectual” (Daily Beast). Adam Kirsch has been described as 'elegant and astute…[a] critic of the very first order’ (Michiko Kakutani,
New York Ti …
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Adam Kirsch: The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature
An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by 'one of America’s finest literary critics’ (Wall Street Journal).
Jews have long embraced their i …
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Adam Kirsch: The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets: The Poetry of Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Jarrell, Schwartz, and Plath
’One of the most promising young poet-critics in America’ (Los Angeles Times) examines a revolutionary generation of poets. Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Randall Jarre …
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Adam Kirsch: The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century
An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.
Following The People and the Books, which 'covers more than 2, 500 years of high …
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Adam Kirsch: The Discarded Life
In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch …
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Adam Kirsch: The Revolt Against Humanity
Should we welcome the end of humanity?
In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconcei …
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Adam Kirsch: La revolta contra la humanitat
«Volem ser déus o no? Volem ser humans o no ho volem? La humanitat es pot superar ella mateixa? Kirsch recull les aportacions de pensadors que cal tenir molt en compte en el nostre futur immediat i …
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Adam Kirsch: On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment.
Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7, the term “settler colonialism” has become a center of p …
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