Leslie Epstein Summary

Leslie Epstein is a contemporary American novelist, critic, and educator. The fact that he is a comic writer who addresses serious subjects has proven controversial in the critical assessment of his w... Read more

Critical Essay by Anne Marie Stamford If you can imagine a Woody Allen movie with the screenplay by Kurt Vonnegut, you'll have a good idea of what [P. D. Kimerakov] is like. Unfortunately for ... Read more

Critical Essay by Susan Lydon Despite the countless thousands of words expended on the soul of the middle-aged Jewish male (now plumbed nearly to exhaustion), his generational counterpart, the middle... Read more

Critical Essay by Katha Pollitt If writers got gold stars for the risks they took, Leslie Epstein would get a handful for the title story of this collection of short fiction. "The Steinway Qui... Read more

Critical Essay by Jane Larkin Crain Fictionalizing the experiences of those 160,000 Polish Jews who were first herded into the ghetto of Lodz and later deported to the Nazi death camps, this novel re... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Alter Making novels out of the holocaust has proved to be a hopelessly self-contradictory enterprise for most writers. The conventional novel, with its formal coherence of be... Read more

Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews As critics have often noted, Epstein's fiction—especially P. D. Kimerakov … bears a large resemblance to Saul Bellow's. And this disappoin... Read more