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juliamklein.bsky.social
Freelance cultural reporter and critic, contributing book critic for the Forward, recovering political junkie
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Jeff Hobbs on a mother fighting, against the odds, for good education and affordable housing in Southern California. Is that combo even possible? My review of "Seeking Shelter" in the Los Angeles Times.

Who’s responsible for all those COVID-19 nursing home deaths?

A replica of #AnneFrank’s secret annex anchors a poignant NY exhibition

What we write about when we write about #AnneFrank forward.com/culture/book...

NBCC member @juliamklein.bsky.social reviewed Bernhard Schlink's "The Granddaughter" for The Wall Street Journal:

Olivia Campbell tackles the group biography of four women physicists who fled Nazi Germany. My review for the Los Angeles Times.

Bernhard Schlink’s meditation on contemporary Germany.

#PerleMesta is more than a metaphor in Meryl Gordon’s new biography.

It started slowly, but I am a late convert to #Ripley. Brilliant. Come for the cinematography, stay for the story. And the symbolism.

A #Holocaust novel, Lily Tuck’s “The Rest is Memory,” zigzags through fact and fiction to memorialize a Polish teenager

Staying up way too late watching #SayNothing on #Hulu. But have resorted to subtitles.

I’m new here, but following the crowd. Wish I could press a button & transfer my modest connections from elsewhere….For now, I’ll just be hanging out….