Click here to read “The Secret Life of Jewish Genes” by Nicholas Wade from Moment Magazine’s July/August 2012 issue.
The books reviewed here are Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People by Harry Ostrer and The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA by Jeff Wheelwright.
Click Here to Read: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man: Psychoanalysis and Masculinity By Donald Moss, Reviewed by David Kennedy on the Times Register Education website on June 28, 2012.
Click here to read David Rieff’s review of The Patagonian Hare, “A Vast Choir of Voices: On Claude Lanzmann,” from the July 2-9, 2012 edition of The Nation.
In an earlier post, Arnie Richards and I reviewed Claude Lanzmann’s memoir, this writer who also produced the nine-hour Shoah, a landmark film for the twentieth century. Click here to read said post, “This Justifies a Life: Lanzmann’s Memoir and Yom HaShoah by Nathan Szajnberg.”
David Rieff reviews this book in the Nation. His review reads like the recipe for how one need prepare venison: first you have to eviscerate it, then you can enjoy the steak. He begins by gutting Lanzmann: “Even the most passionate of lifelong romances tend to cool with time. But… Lanzmann’s … self-involvement seems only to have risen with the passing decades.” Rieff identifies a style of French writing (not found among French scientists; moreso amongst essayists and such) as a “confederacy of braggarts.” Not to be found in the gaggle of penman traits such as irony, self-effacement or stoicism. Witness Sartre. Or Beauvoir, his (Sartre’s and Lanzmann’s) lover.
Continue reading Read Rieff on Lanzmann’s Patagonian Hare by N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor
Click here to read “Why We Love: 5 Books on the Psychology of Love” by Maria Popova from Brain Pickings.
It’s often said that every song, every poem, every novel, every painting ever created is in some way “about” love. What this really means is that love is a central theme, an underlying preoccupation, in humanity’s greatest works. But what exactly islove?
