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Shabbat Reading: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
#whatireadovershabbat James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916; Modern Library, 1996) There’s no Künstlerroman more...

Yeshua Tolle
Apr 8, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Roberto Calsasso's The Celestial Hunter
#whatireadovershabbat Roberto Calasso's The Celestial Hunter, translated by Richard Dixon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) The Celestial...

Yeshua Tolle
Apr 1, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: William Golding's The Inheritors
#whatireadovershabbat William Golding's The Inheritors (1955; Mariner Books, 1963) Best known for his high school English classic, Lord...

Yeshua Tolle
Mar 25, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History
#whatireadovershabbat Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History: The Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (Algonquin Books,...

Yeshua Tolle
Mar 18, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place
#whatireadovershabbat Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000) We’ve all at some point been a tourist. To...

Yeshua Tolle
Mar 12, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery
#whatireadovershabbat Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery (1901; Penguin, 1986) You can read this book on many levels. As literature,...

Yeshua Tolle
Mar 5, 20231 min read
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