PositiveThe New York Review of Books1929 is an attempt to turn history back into journalism ... The problem with this approach is that everyone is dead—there’s no one to interview, and few primary sources for the human drama of it all ... Sorkin draws on letters, speeches, newspaper stories, and bank archives ... It may not be his fault that it only intermittently works ... Sorkin’s rendition is limited by his desire to frame 1929 as a story about people ... Sorkin is more interested in how the crisis felt than why it happened.
Howard Jacobson
RaveSlateWeisberg's Law states that any Jew more religious than you are is mentally insane, while any Jew less religious is a self-hater. The Finkler Question demonstrates this rule's applicability in Britain, where the striations of Semitism have their own complications and subtleties … Like Phillip Roth, to whom he is fairly compared, Howard Jacobson is a magnificent prose stylist who is often at his most serious when he is being uproariously funny.
