PositiveLos Angeles Review of Books\"The trilogy of trenchant, well-argued essays that comprise Dear Zealots represent decades of accrued wisdom about the situation into which the author was born (Jerusalem, 1939) and spent his career thinking and writing about ... In Jessica Cohen’s nimble translation, Oz’s sentences are spare, declarative, and peppered with wit ... While the voice of Amos Oz will be missed, we have his words as a moral guide.\
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksAbdul-Jabbar has written a terrific new book, Coach Wooden and Me. But here’s the thing: It’s not brooding or aloof or angry or controversial, and it’s not dunking on anyone’s head. It’s tender, melancholy, and made me tear up. It’s also funny and contains a lot of basketball ... Coach Wooden and Me is no 'as told to.' Abdul-Jabbar is an actual writer. And a skillful, accomplished one ... While Wooden can sometimes come off as a too-good-to-be-true storybook father figure, there are enough accounts of his saltiness to keep it from being hagiography ... He and his coach met in the place where the verities of friendship, mutual respect, and kindness hold sway. His themes remain timeless and yet, in these cruel and corrupt days we currently endure, they could not be more relevant.
