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December 5, 2025

Book Review: David Denby profiles 4 ’eminent’ Jews who changed post-WWII American culture

April 19, 2025 Ann Levin

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of biographical writing by portraying his subjects with warts and all. In his new book “Eminent […]

Q&A: Mel Brooks, 95, is still riffing

December 3, 2021 Jake Coyle, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Leave it to Mel Brooks to blurb his own memoir. There, along with laudatory quotes from Billy Crystal, Norman Lear, Conan O’Brien and others is one from “M. Brooks,” who hails “All […]