Who Wants to be a Jewish Writer? and Other Essays
Adam Kirsch
Jewish Life and Thoughts
Publisher Yale University Press
ISBN 9 780300 240139
£18.00
Adam Kirsch is a distinguished literary critic contributing regularly to the New Yorker, Tablet and other publications.  This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion and their intersections, the definition of Jewish Literature and why so many Jewish American writers have resisted this category, inviting us to consider: “Is there such a thing as Jewish Literature?”