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Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch is an editor at The Wall Street Journal’s weekend Review section. His new book of poems, The Discarded Life, will be published in May by Red Hen Press.

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October 21, 2022
Magazine
The Tumultuous Lives of the First Romantics
At its peak in the eighteenth century, Jena in Germany may have had a higher concentration of geniuses than Renaissance Florence or ancient Athens—and plenty of drama.
March 22, 2022
Magazine
Sheila Heti Steps Away From Autofiction
Her new novel “Pure Colour” investigates the eternal.
September 11, 2020
Magazine
The Problem With Redemption for Wagner
Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood?
December 2, 2014
An Innovative Exploration of Death in Fiction
November 10, 2014
Americans Finally Have the Chance to Read the Haunting Fiction of this Year's Nobel Prize Winner
September 3, 2014
The Metaphysical Case for Abolishing Political Parties
Do political parties corrupt the souls of their members?
August 9, 2014
One of Liberalism's Greatest Defenders Doesn't Deserve His Obscurity
The pathos of Stefan Zweig and his overdue revival
August 5, 2014
Finally, a TV Show That Truly Takes Religion Seriously
July 30, 2014
Ira Glass Is a Philistine for Saying Shakespeare Sucks, But He's in Good Company
Why writers have spent centuries attacking the Bard
July 3, 2014
Joshua Mehigan’s 'Accepting the Disaster' is The Real Thing
June 10, 2014
A British TV Celebrity Called for a "Poetry Inquisition." He's Right.
How to make poetry relevant again
May 29, 2014
The Winner in the Kinsley-Greenwald Spat: The New York Times Book Review
Opinion journalism—which is what a book review is—can not be subject to some kind of impartial standard of correctness.
May 18, 2014
Yet Another Writer Has Admitted Faking Her Holocaust Memoir
The long, strange history of made-up Shoah stories
May 5, 2014
Dear Facebook, I'm Fed Up
How social media has changed indignation
May 2, 2014
Technology Is Taking Over English Departments
The false promise of the digital humanities
March 5, 2014
Russians Will Always Be America's Favorite Villains. And Now They're Back.
February 26, 2014
The Real Reason Writers Love the Amtrak Residency
It's not just the free train ticket
February 6, 2014
Like It or Not, Movie Lovers Are Going to Forgive Woody Allen
February 4, 2014
Germans Make a Sympathetic TV Series about WWII. What Could Go Wrong?
The well-intentioned, deeply troubling hear of "Generation War"
January 24, 2014
No, Mein Kampf Is Not an Amazon Bestseller

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