Through the Looking-Glass
Today on Tablet
August 23, 2011
In The Vices, novelist Lawrence Douglas weaves a self-consciously bookish tale about the American equivalent of a nobleman and his hamishe Jewish Boswell, only, as books critic Adam Kirsch explains today in Tablet Magazine, to slowly hint that perhaps the story is a little more complicated than it initially appears.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.