I write book reviews and culture journalism for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. I also teach at Columbia, @92Y, and sometimes elsewhere. I’m the author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life and A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction.
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Thoughts on what I've been reading and writing these days. A monthly group read featuring Israeli and Palestinian writers. Updates on my current book project, a biography of Anne Frank. And now and forever, news from the world of Shirley Jackson.
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I'm a book critic and the author of SHIRLEY JACKSON: A RATHER HAUNTED LIFE. Just begun: a monthly group read featuring Israeli and Palestinian writers. New book about Anne Frank coming winter 2025.