This book cover image released by Henry Holt shows "Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer" by David Denby. (Henry Holt via AP) When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in ...

If you were going to sum up the post-war American Jewish experience, who would you pick as the age’s great exemplars? The choices would clearly be dizzying. In film there’s everyone from Woody Allen ...

In his book Eminent Jews, David Denby provides engaging, informative, insightful, mostly, but not entirely, celebratory biographies of four eminent Jews. In the decades following World War II, as ...

David Denby’s new four-part essay celebration, entitled Eminent Jews, is a shout-out to Lytton Strachey’s 1918 four-person biography collection Eminent Victorians, which changed how prominent people ...

Kim and John discuss the dust-up between uber producer Scott Rudin and David Denby, film critic for The New Yorker. This week The New Yorker published Denby's review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ...

The title “Eminent Jews” naturally evokes “Eminent Victorians,” Lytton Strachey’s takedown of Victorian culture through crushing biographical essays on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas ...

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of biographical writing by portraying his subjects with warts and all. In his ...