Elaine Margolin is a book critic whose work was appeared in many venues, including Washington Post, Jerusalem Post, Denver Post, and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as many literary journals. She lives in Hewlett, New York.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Corrosive Stigma of Aloneness: On Jill Bialosky’s “The Deceptions”
Elaine Margolin reviews Jill Bialosky’s new novel “The Deceptions.”...
Moments of Grace: On Azar Nafisi’s “Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times”
In her new memoir, the author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” describes her troubled relationship with her father....
Not Mad Enough
Updating a feminist classic, “The Madwoman in the Attic,” for the #MeToo era....
Interminable Hurt: On Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s “American Estrangement”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s new story collection mines the troubled psyches of alienated loners....
Unnurtured and Unloved: On Andrea Bajani’s “If You Kept a Record of Sins”
A superb new English translation of a celebrated contemporary Italian novel out now from Achipelago....
A Pulse on the Eye: The Art of Helen Frankenthaler
A sparkling new biography of a major female abstract expressionist painter....
Radical Lives: On New Biographies of Rose Pastor Stokes and Dorothy Day
Two new biographies of early 20th-century American radical women....
Melancholy Recollections: On Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s “Family Papers”
Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s “Family Papers” is a rigorously researched chronicle of a Sephardic clan....
The Trauma of Pretending: On Adam P. Frankel’s “The Survivors”
A former Obama speechwriter struggles with the trauma of his mother’s mental illness....
