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MEET BARBARA ROSENBERG: a yenta, a ho- mophobe, and now a terminally ill woman, writ- ing the story of her life from her Manhattan apart- ment. Blending her retelling of her marriage, career,
and dramatic aspirations with her chaotic, embittered reflections on Karl Marx, philosophy, and the Jewish diaspora, she tries to come to terms with her two greatest dis- appointments: an estranged trans
NIGHT NIGHT FAWN Jordy Rosenberg One World March 3
BOOKS / NON-FICTION A Mystic Among Marxists
son, and a best friend whose betrayal still haunts her. Author of Confessions of the Fox , Jordy Rosen- berg is known for tackling the messy intersections of family, identity, and regret through sharply writ- ten characters. Sophia Hershfield
GREATLY UNDERAPPRECIATED during his lifetime, Walter Benjamin is now regarded as one of the most significant thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Berlin in 1892, Benjamin was a literary critic, philosopher, cultural theorist, and kabbalist. His most famous essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” explored how then-new technologies, like pho- tography and cinema, were changing not just art but the way
we see and experience the world. A Marx- ist with mystical leanings, Benjamin’s work defies easy labels: part poetry, part theory, always searching for the hidden meanings in everyday life. This new biography proposes to situate Benjamin within his Jewish heritage and the turbulent politics and philosophies of the twentieth century. Sophia Hershfield
WALTER BENJAMIN: THE PEARL DIVER Peter E. Gordon Yale University Press February 24
POETRY Subversive Ancestry
THIS POETRY COLLECTION by the Montreal writer and Concordia University scholar, who has been published in every Canadian literary jour- nal imaginable, envisions alternative realities for a queer ancestor. The highly personal collection of poems moves between multiple locations and time periods, including New York City and Romania, as well as Solomon’s contemporary experiences living in Montreal. In his master’s thesis, where he developed this work, Solomon wrote that his hope was to create “metapoems that explore my queer longing” through an inno- vative Jewish lens. Jonathan Rothman
MY GREAT- GRANDFATHER DANCED BALLET Misha Solomon Brick Books March 15
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