Author: Adam Kirsch

When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945, it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature, not only for its vivid historical reconstruction …

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, …

In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use tradition …

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The distinguished poet and critic argues for the abiding relevance of a great literary mind of the twentieth century Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s pree …

From one of today’s keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two Adam Kirsch is one of today’s finest literary critics. This collec …

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A collection of bold, insightful, and controversial essays by “a poetry critic of the very first order” (New York Times). Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, …

A collection of essays from a “great poet-critic-intellectual” (Daily Beast). Adam Kirsch has been described as ‘elegant and astute…[a] critic of the very first order’ (Michiko Kakutani, New York Tim …

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 ide …

‘One of the most promising young poet-critics in America’ (Los Angeles Times) examines a revolutionary generation of poets. Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Randall Jarre …

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 …

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 …

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 inconceivabl …

«Volem ser déus o no? Volem ser humans o no ho volem? La humanitat es pot superar ella mateixa? Kirsch recull les aportacions de pensadors que cal tenir molt en compte en el nostre futur immediat i e …

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 publ …

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, …