Ghost Stories
Ruth FranklinFor people who think critically about books. An insider perspective on book publishing, writing criticism, and my biography currently in production, THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK. Also featuring an occasional group read of Israeli and Palestinian authors.
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Teacups and ICE
A friend sent me an email yesterday with this image:
Another friend, who lives in Minneapolis, posted on Facebook an agonized meditation on how she now no longer knows whether she would be a “good German,” because she’s not sure she would...
Empty and aching
I wake up in the middle of the night with the Simon & Garfunkel song “America” in my head. “Let us be lovers / we’ll marry our fortunes together …”
More than any other song I know, this one captures the feeling of the road trip, that quin...
A "ta-da" list for 2025
“All my undone actions wander / naked across the calendar,” Richard Hoffman writes in a poem called “December 31st,” which pretty well sums up my mood at this time of year.
To combat that where-has-all-the-time-gone-and-what-do-I-have-to-s...
The view from here
I woke up this morning in Tel Aviv to a sound I’ve never heard here before: rain. It took my groggy senses a moment to register what it was. Then my phone buzzed with a text from a journalist friend. “There’s a deal!” she wrote.
I’ve visit...
Letting go
Friends, I have done it. A rash, tedious, long-overdue project that I never thought was possible.
I have Kondo-ed my books.
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I’ve been writing book criticism for twenty-five years. Twenty-five years as a book critic means a...
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I'm a book critic and the author of THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK and SHIRLEY JACKSON: A RATHER HAUNTED LIFE. I write about books, biography, and writing. New monthly group read featuring banned books.
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