Adam Kirsch, Author . Norton $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-05197-1
The "great constellation" of writers Kirsch discusses have been praised as the first wave of "confessional" poets, but he finds this received opinion misguided. What makes these poets special, he argues, is not that they spilled...
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Adam Kirsch, Author . Ivan R. Dee $18.95 (63p) ISBN 978-1-56663-774-9
Through reviews in the New Yorker
, the New Republic
and elsewhere, Kirsch (The Wounded Surgeon
) has fast become one of the country’s best-known poetry critics, advocating self-control, formal mastery, rational argument and attention to the...
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Adam Kirsch, Author . Schocken/Nextbook $21 (257p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4249-2
Although he was a practicing Christian, baptized into the Church of England at age 12, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's (1804–1881) Jewishness was a central fact about him. Drawing on previous biographies, histories of English...
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Adam Kirsch, Author Ivan R. Dee Publisher $18.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-56663-451-9
As a frequent reviewer for the New Republic and the New York Times, Adam Kirsch is one of the most visible of young poetry critics, but he also practices what he critiques. His debut collection, The Thousand Wells, won the New Criterion's Poetry
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Adam Kirsch. . Yale Univ., $24 (192p) ISBN 978-0-300-15269-2
A sincere addition to the Why X Matters Series, this volume is devoted to a deeply conflicted figure, primarily in terms of his Jewishness amid the then Christian bastion of Columbia University, but also regarding the very nature of his own talent....
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Adam Kirsch. Norton, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-24176-1
In this insightful and comprehensive volume, Kirsch has chosen 18 classic works of Jewish literature through which he tells the unique story of the Jewish people and of Jewish thought throughout the ages. The books segue seamlessly from one work to...
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Adam Kirsch. Columbia Global Reports, $12.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-9977229-0-1
This slender volume from award-winning poet and critic Kirsch (The People and the Book) contributes little to the ongoing debate over the definition and function of world literature. He starts by asking the standard questions: Can a book ever be...
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Adam Kirsch. Norton, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393652-40-6
Kirsch’s excellent follow-up to 2016’s The People and the Books again explores “central aspects of Jewish experience” through essential reading material. This time he focuses on crucial works of 20th-century literature by authors including Saul...
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Adam Kirsch. Brandeis Univ., $32.50 (256p) ISBN 978-1-684580-67-5
Poet and literary critic Kirsch (The Blessing and the Curse) turns his attention to the Talmud in this thoughtful take on the appeal of Talmud study’s intellectual rigor. After realizing his understanding of Jewish literature and history required...
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Adam Kirsch. Columbia Global Reports, $16 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-73-591376-6
Poet and critic Kirsch (The Blessing and the Curse) delivers an intense study of the various schools of thought on “the end of humanity’s reign on Earth.” On one hand is the “Anthropocene antihumanist” camp, who assert that humans aren’t “Earth’s...
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