J. Hoberman

J. Hoberman is senior film critic for The Village Voice. His books include The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism (Temple).

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  • Class Acts

    September 20, 2007 Subscribe

    The left's literary canon has neglected the contributions less-celebrated writers have made to the political significance of literature.

2006

  • Supersize Misha

    May 18, 2006 Subscribe

    Absurdistan is a stunning encore for novelist Gary Shteyngart, both the avatar of a new Jewish-American literature and an inveterate Eastern European trickster.

2005

  • The Twilight Zone

    August 11, 2005 Subscribe

    Though Bergelson wrote in Germany during the 1920s, his stories in Shadows of Berlin are more focused on the past apocalypse than the impending one.

  • Jewtopia

    February 24, 2005 Subscribe

2004

  • Pop and Circumstance

    November 24, 2004

    Hensbergen's "biography" is the eleventh book (in English) devoted to Picasso's mural Guernica.

2003

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