![]() Even when raving about her work, reviewers sound the same plaintive note. Pearlman does not fit neatly into this lineage, which may be one reason she remains largely unknown. ![]() Reviewers and publicists readily categorized Englander and Auslander as maverick geniuses, the rightful heirs of Philip Roth, who wrote provocatively about Anne Frank in The Ghost Writer and Operation Shylock. Yet despite the several prizes awarded to Binocular Vision, with their attendant publicity, Pearlman remains a largely unknown quantity. All three write about Jewish characters and Jewish worlds. ![]() Do we know how to talk about Jewish writers when they are not talking about Anne Frank? Around the time that Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories won the National Book Critics Circle Award this past spring, Nathan Englander published a new collection of stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Knopf, 2012), and Shalom Auslander brought out Hope: A Tragedy (Riverhead, 2012), a novel prominently featuring Anne Frank. ![]()
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