Ripped from the Headlines: Reality Cinema
First published in Dissent (Summer 2016) Hollywood has always had a strong appetite for fact yet a curiously lax attitude in channeling it. The typical biopic, ...
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Ways of Being Jewish, Times Literary Supplement April 13, 2016
Morris Dickstein’s Review of THE NEW DIASPORA: The changing landscape of American Jewish fiction, THE IMPOSSIBLE JEW: Identity and the reconstruction of J...
What the Shadow Knows Paul Pines in Notre Dame Review
Read Paul Pines’s review of Why Not Say What Happened. What the Shadow Knows PDF What the Shadow Knows Morris Dickstein. Why Not Say What Happened. Liverw...
On the West bank: A New Israeli novel
First published in the Times Literary Supplement (Jan. 2, 2015) Among many obstacles to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the settlements establ...
Marshall Berman, 1940-2013
(My longtime friend Marshall Berman died suddenly on September 11, 2013, just a year ago today. To mark his yahrzeit I’m posting some remarks I made at a ...
My Cousin Harry
First published in Tablet (posted July 3, 2014) My cousin Harry Krug, who died early last year at 88, was related to me only by marriage but he couldn’t have be...
The Best of the Best?
First posted on NBCC Reads (October 29, 2013) So many of the finest works of the last 38 years have been nominated for the NBCC book awards that it’s almost imp...
My Life in Fiction
First published in The Threepenny Review (Fall 2013) Novels demand a projection of self that varies with your moods and seasons, the stages of your life. Readin...
Norman Mailer and the Nobel Prize
From the Mailer Review, Fall 2012: [Going through my papers recently I came across the carbon of a letter nominating Norman Mailer for the Nobel Prize in Litera...
Joseph Frank and the Unknown Dostoevsky
As a tribute to the late Joseph Frank (1918-2013), I reprint my review, slightly updated here, of the first volume of his great biography of Dostoevsky, which f...