Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch, a poet and literary critic, is the author of, among other books, Benjamin Disraeli and The People and The Books: Eighteen Classics of Jewish Literature.

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Response · December 18, 2023
Anti-Semitism Appeals to Intellectuals Because It Feels Like an Idea
By Adam Kirsch
Gary Saul Morson’s characteristically learned and insightful essay on Dostoevsky raises the question of how a writer with such a profound understanding of good and evil could fall prey to such a rudim...
Response · October 23, 2019
Why Bellow Was the Least Jewish Writer of the Golden Age of American Jewish Fiction
By Adam Kirsch
Saul Bellow didn’t like the word “task” as applied to literature: “tasks are for people who work in offices,” he once cracked. Yet Ruth R. Wisse’s survey in Mosaic of Bellow’s achievement as an Amer...