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May 20, 2025

Cynthia Ozick’s Jewish, and American, Imagination

In a Yellow Wood.

This year, the great American Jewish writer Cynthia Ozick saw the publication of an anthology of her short stories and essays. Reviewing the collection, titled In a Yellow Wood, Adam Kosan criticizes some of the editorial choices and provides a laudatory and incisive overview of Ozick’s oeuvre, not forgetting to mention her novels as well. (You can listen to Ozick discuss her more recent works of fiction here, here, and here.) For anyone who’s read and loved even a little of Ozick’s work, the essay rewards reading in full:

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