The author of two novels and dozens of essays, Cynthia Ozick is best known for her three collections of short fiction, The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971), Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976), and Levitation: Five Fictions (1982). Despite the relati...

Cynthia Ozick's stature as a writer came through a long apprenticeship, during which she often read eighteen hours a day. Having so intensely lived within literature herself, she can by a few deft allusions weave a veil of bookish imaginings through whic...

One of the most versatile contemporary American writers, Cynthia Ozick has written novels, short fiction, essays, poems, a play, and many articles and reviews. In the United States she has received the most acclaim for her short stories, while in Britain...

Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox (Knopf, 799 pp., $35) AGES OF great transition, whether they represent the brith or the death of something dear to posterity, hold out an irresistible appeal to the historical imagination. Christianity's ascent from a...

The Program Temptation by Thomas Molnar(Eerdmans, 201 pp., $11.95) I CAME UPON this book the same weekI began reading C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia to my children. What a happy coincidence! Won't their encounter with a Golden Lion and a...