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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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April 6, 2023
MagazineAdam Kirsch
The Battle Over Bruno Schulz’s Final Works
The Polish Jewish writer was forced to decorate the home of his Nazi captor with fairytale murals. Where does the art belong?
October 21, 2022
MagazineAdam Kirsch
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
MagazineAdam Kirsch
Sheila Heti Steps Away From Autofiction
Her new novel “Pure Colour” investigates the eternal.
September 11, 2020
MagazineAdam Kirsch
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?
September 3, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Metaphysical Case for Abolishing Political Parties
Do political parties corrupt the souls of their members?
August 9, 2014
Adam Kirsch
One of Liberalism's Greatest Defenders Doesn't Deserve His Obscurity
The pathos of Stefan Zweig and his overdue revival
June 10, 2014
Adam Kirsch
A British TV Celebrity Called for a "Poetry Inquisition." He's Right.
How to make poetry relevant again
May 18, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Yet Another Writer Has Admitted Faking Her Holocaust Memoir
The long, strange history of made-up Shoah stories
March 5, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Russians Will Always Be America's Favorite Villains. And Now They're Back.
February 26, 2014
Adam Kirsch
The Real Reason Writers Love the Amtrak Residency
It's not just the free train ticket
January 9, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Since When Is Philip Roth an Idol?
He went from bete noire to laureate. Why'd we lose track of his flaws?
September 11, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Thomas Pynchon Takes on September 11
April 10, 2013
Adam Kirsch
The Other Anne Frank
An important, new Auschwitz survivor's diary
February 18, 2013
Adam Kirsch
The New Essayists, or the Decline of a Form?
David Sedaris and a literary version of reality TV
July 28, 2011
Adam Kirsch
The Importance of Being Earnest
April 18, 2011
Adam Kirsch
The Memory Table
March 9, 2011
Adam Kirsch
The Temple Mount in New York
December 9, 2010
Adam Kirsch
Edited Out
March 19, 2010
Adam Kirsch
Austen in Connecticut
March 16, 2010
Adam Kirsch
Against Beauty

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