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  • On Settler Colonialism

    Ideology, Violence, and Justice

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment.Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7, the term “settler colonialism” has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and influential in academic circles, settler colonialism is shaping the way many people think about the history ... Read more

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  • We Want to Believe

    How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    Why do we still believe in UFOs, despite repeated efforts to dismiss them?For most of the twentieth century, reports of unidentified flying objects were treated as cultural error: cranks, hoaxes, late-night radio. Then, abruptly, the posture changed. The Pentagon released videos it could not explain. Navy pilots testified under oath about encounters that defied known technology. Intelligence ... Read more

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  • Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?

    And Other Essays

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    From one of today's keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the twoAdam Kirsch is one of today's finest literary critics. This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, with a particular focus on Jewish literature. He explores the definition of Jewish literature, the relationship between ... Read more

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  • The Discarded Life

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen X landmarks—from Devo to Atari to the Challenger disaster—to tell a story of emotional and artistic coming of age, exploring universal questions of meaning, mortality, and how we become who ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The People and the Books

    18 Classics of Jewish Literature

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    An accessible introduction to the classics of Jewish literature, from the Bible to modern times, by "one of America’s finest literary critics" (Wall Street Journal).Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Revolt Against Humanity

    Imagining a Future Without Us

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    Should we welcome the end of humanity?In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it. Kirsch journeys through literature, philosophy, science, and popular ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Sons and Daughters

    A Novel

    by Chaim Grade ...
    Translated by Rose Waldman ...
    **2026 PEN AMERICA AWARD FOR TRANSLATION FINALIST • From “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity.A NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK • A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Blessing and the Curse

    The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Benjamin Disraeli

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesA dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who was born a Jew--and who remained in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Come and Hear

    What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    A literary critic’s journey through the Talmud.Spurred by a curiosity about Daf Yomi—a study program launched in the 1920s in which Jews around the world read one page of the Talmud every day for 2,711 days, or about seven and a half years—Adam Kirsch approached Tablet magazine to write a weekly column about his own Daf Yomi experience. An avowedly secular Jew, Kirsch did not have a religious ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • The Global Novel

    Writing the World in the 21st Century

    by Adam Kirsch ...
    What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization?In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century’s best-known writers—including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Elena Ferrante—and how they each have a way of imagining the world that sees different places and peoples as intimately connected.From climate change and sex trafficking to ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Republic of Plato

    by Allan Bloom ...
    The definitive translation of Plato's Republic**, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy.**“To read The Republic as Bloom means it to be read is to question everything we think we know about government, politics, the best human life, and the nature of truth.” —Adam Kirsch, from the introductionA cornerstone of Western thought, The Republic remains a... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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