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Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch is an editor at The Wall Street Journal’s weekend Review section. His new book of poems, The Discarded Life, will be published in May by Red Hen Press.

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January 24, 2014
Adam Kirsch
No, Mein Kampf Is Not an Amazon Bestseller
January 9, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Since When Is Philip Roth an Idol?
He went from bete noire to laureate. Why'd we lose track of his flaws?
January 8, 2014
Adam Kirsch
This Novel Could Be the Next 'Suite Francaise'
December 15, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Our Book Critic's 5 Favorite Books of the Year
November 9, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Giacomo Leopardi's "Zibaldone," the Least Known Masterpiece of European Literature
September 11, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Thomas Pynchon Takes on September 11
July 30, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Reza Aslan’s ‘Zealot’ Paints a Vivid, Accessible Portrait of Jesus
July 19, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Against Cynicism
A philosopher's brilliant reasons for living
July 15, 2013
Adam Kirsch
What Would James Agee Say About the George Zimmerman Trial?
June 12, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Smoking and the Intellectual
'Susan Sontag: Reborn' turns intellectual evolution into drama
April 28, 2013
Adam Kirsch
The Greatest English Poet You Haven't Heard of
The wisdom of a poet in nature and in war
April 10, 2013
Adam Kirsch
The Other Anne Frank
An important, new Auschwitz survivor's diary
February 18, 2013
Adam Kirsch
The New Essayists, or the Decline of a Form?
David Sedaris and a literary version of reality TV
January 7, 2013
Adam Kirsch
No Solid Homeland—Mid-century Travels Through America
October 31, 2012
Adam Kirsch
A Middlemarch for Middle America
September 28, 2012
Adam Kirsch
Past Lives: A Memoir of Family Secrets and Lies
July 12, 2012
Adam Kirsch
Art Over Biology
July 9, 2012
Adam Kirsch
The Imaginary Jew
June 13, 2012
Adam Kirsch
In and Out of History
May 8, 2012
Adam Kirsch
The Imagination Catches Up

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