Liel Leibovitz, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-312-31515-3
As a 10-year-old Israeli, Leibovitz thought his American cousins had it all: freedom, prosperity and McDonald's. So he was shocked to learn that his cousins were abandoning their New Jersey "oasis" for the blood-soaked land of Israel....
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Leil Leibovitz. Norton, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-08205-0
Fact and fandom blend together in this brief biography of Leonard Cohen, the unlikely elder statesman of rock and roll who began his career as one of Canada's leading poets. This is in part due to the self-mythologizing persona of the depressive,...
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Liel Leibovitz. Yale Univ, $26 (192p) ISBN 978-0-300-23034-5
Leibovitz (A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen) brilliantly charts the life and legacy of the founder of Marvel Comics in this slim but affecting biography. Leibovitz calls Stan Lee (1922–2018) an “effervesce
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Liel Leibovitz. Norton, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-324020-82-0
In this stellar outing, journalist Leibovitz (Stan Lee) elucidates how ancient rabbinic debates remain relevant to modern meaning-seekers. While the adjective “talmudic” is often synonymous with “abstruse” or “hair-splitting,” Leibovitz argues that...
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Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller, Norton, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-07004-0
With its surging storyline, extraordinary events, and depth of character, this gripping tale of 120 Chinese boys sent to America—and scattered about New England—in 1872 reads more like a novel than an obscure slice of history. Leibovitz and Miller...
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Liel Leibovitz, Author, Matthew Miller, Author . Norton $25.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-393-06584-8
In 1941, a German-controlled radio station in Belgrade broadcast a recording that soldiers later referred to affectionately as “Lili Marlene.” Leibovitz (Aliya
) and Miller (a Columbia School of Journalism student) offer this fascinating
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Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz, Simon & Schuster, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3235-7
Two drastically different interpretations of "chosenness" inform this ambitious religio-political meditation on American and Israeli history. The first, which sociologist Gitlin (The Sixties) and journalist Leibovitz (Aliya) deplore, is an arrogant...
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