Author: Diane Ravitch (Alfred Knopf, 2013) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn Prepare to be upset. Prepare to be challenged. Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error is a combative, fact-filled and persuasive condemnation of […]
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Author: Ari Shavit (Spiegel and Grau/Random House, New York, 2013) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn Ari Shavit, the left-wing Israeli journalist, is an uncommonly brave writer. In My Promised Land (2013), […]
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Author: Andrew Solomon (Scribner’s, New York, 2012) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn Andrew Solomon is an exponent of “revolutionary love against the odds.” It is the animating subtext of Far From […]
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti
Author: Amy Wilentz (Simon & Schuster, 2013) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn How do we view people in conditions of abject poverty and powerlessness? In circumstances of catastrophic loss when […]
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society
Authors: Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin (2012, Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn Timing, as we know, is (almost) everything. This is the case […]