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Frume Halpern’s Blessed Hands, translated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
An American writer, in English for the first time
Blessed Hands: Stories, a collection of 20th-century writer Frume Halpern translated into English for the first time, is a treat for Yiddish literary scholars, but leaves a general reader still hungry. Helen Walsh reviews.
Reviews
4 minute read
Homer’s The Iliad, translated by Emily Wilson
The Odyssey’s bloodier cousin
Philadelphia-based translator and UmPenn professor Emily Wilson follows her acclaimed English translation of The Odyssey with a similarly lucid and lean new Iliad. Kiran Pandey reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read
Rinse, by Elaine Terranova
Making peace with enigma
Philly writer Elaine Terranova’s eighth book, Rinse, shows the author’s poetic sensibilities with lyrical language that captures emotional tones and thrumming silences. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read
This Terrible True Thing, by Jenny Laden
A visual look at the AIDS epidemic
Jenny Laden’s new young adult novel captures the AIDS epidemic, shock and isolation, and more through a 17-year-old’s voice and drawings in 1990s Philadelphia. Wendy Univer previews.
Previews
3 minute read
The BSR Weekly Arts and Culture Roundup: Book Week 2023
A curated selection of books in celebration of Disability Pride Month
Alaina Johns and Kyle V. Hiller curate a variety of books from a variety of writers living with disabilities for this year’s BSR book week.
Alaina Johnsand Kyle V. Hiller
Previews
6 minute read
Five reasons to attend the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention
For the geek at heart
An Nichols previews the 2023 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention and how it works towards cultural awareness, youth literacy, and building safe spaces for geekdom.
Previews
3 minute read
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Editorials
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Nadia Boulanger: War Years in America and Her Last Decades, by James Whipple Miller
An artist and a woman, in her own words
Philadelphia-based author James Whipple Miller offers a valuable portrait of the legendary composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, told largely through letters to her longtime friend Ruth Robbins. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical Composer, by Tina Davidson
An esteemed Philadelphia composer tells her story
Composer Tina Davidson, who lived in Philadelphia for about 25 years, offers a memoir that isn’t the story of a solitary artist obsessed with a craft, but rather the worldly, spirited life that informs the art. Peter Burwasser reviews.
Reviews
3 minute read
Done Doing Time: A Portrait of Life After Prison, by Hinda Schuman
Every neighborhood, every human life
In her second book, Philadelphia photographer Hinda Schuman’s sensitive and unflinching lens documents the lives of two women struggling to rebuild their lives after incarceration. Anndee Hochman reviews.
Reviews
5 minute read