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Books

On the Bookshelf

Soloveitchik, Céline, Salinger, and more
By Josh Lambert | 2:10 PM Jun 15, 2009

The publishing industry may be hurting, but if there’s a corner of it that’s still alive and kicking it’s Jewish books. Indeed, the wealth of new material published every month is so vast that it’s tough to keep pace. Beginning this week, we offer some help. Every Monday, contributing editor Josh Lambert, author of recently-published ...

Visual Art & Design

Through the Looking Glass

The many lives of a restless painter
By Joshua Cohen | 11:19 AM Oct 30, 2008

Self-Portrait, around 1945
Alberto Giacometti sketched her with her hands either clasped in a saintly pose, or clenched out of neurosis. In one drawing, her shoulders are hunched, her neck inquisitively thrust forward, and her face open, as if nervously searching out viewers for their thoughts. The setting is a Paris atelier, 1958. In Vallauris ...