Hello, friends!
Except under exceptional circumstances, book reviewing is a cup I'd prefer to let pass. But in the last couple weeks, I've made the effort gladly on behalf of Jeremy Eichler's Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance, published in August by Knopf (reviewed in The New Criterion, for my debut there), and of Kao Kalia Yang's Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life, just out from Simon & Schuster (reviewed in Air Mail). Both titles have received kudos aplenty. In all humility, I hope you'll find my two cents uniquely insightful. Apologies in advance if you run afoul of a paywall, but you know how it is.
