Jerome Robbins

By Wendy Lesser

Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was draw...

Room for Doubt

By Wendy Lesser

Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on the philosopher Da...

Scandinavian Noir

By Wendy Lesser

You Say to Brick

By Wendy Lesser

The Amateur

By Wendy Lesser

The Amateur is an inquiry into how we discover our passions and how they discover us. In The Amateur Lesser explores some of the choices she has made in pursuit of an old fashioned but indispensabl...

The Genius of Language

By Wendy Lesser

A collection of fifteen original essays in which writers reflect on their original languages, the mother tongues that shaped the English they write as well as the people they have become. (jacket f...

Room for Doubt

By Wendy Lesser

A director calls

By Wendy Lesser

This new experiment in theater criticism is simultaneously a study of one director - Stephen Daldry, director of An Inspector Calls - and a reflection on theater, art, and life. Wendy Lesser's book...

A director calls

By Wendy Lesser

This new experiment in theater criticism is simultaneously a study of one director - Stephen Daldry, director of An Inspector Calls - and a reflection on theater, art, and life. Wendy Lesser's book...

IThe Life Below the Ground: A Study of the Subterranean in Literature and History

By Wendy Lesser