Archive for October, 1993
- Roy Lewis’s “The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father” • October 15, 1993
This book review was originally published in the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 15, 1993. Published without fanfare some thirty years ago in England, Roy Lewis’ Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father has been rescued from the bowels of obscurity by Italian publisher Roberto Calasso. And this comic tale of Pleistocene civilization is quite [...] - Philip Roth’s “Operation Shylock” • October 11, 1993
Philip Roth's "Operation Shylock" asks why it is that American Jews — the so-called "normalized" Jews like Roth — can both revere and detest Israel at the same time. Is there a real truth about the so-called Holy Land and the people that support it, or is truth simply in the eye of the beholder?