Turbulent Souls (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen J. Dubner
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1920’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: The United States, Poland, and Israel
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Authors or writers, Religion, Jews or Jewish life, Fathers, Catholics or Catholic Church, Judaism
- Locales: United States, Israel, Poland
In 1996, Stephen Dubner, a young writer and editor at The New York Times Magazine, contributed a cover story to that publication entitled, “Choosing My Religion.” The piece attracted wide attention and made Dubner a well-known figure both in Catholic and Jewish circles in New York City. Turbulent Souls is an expansion of that article into a book of unusual drama and thoughtfulness. Sensitive readers will react to it much as have many of Dubner’s interlocutors: “If you hadn’t told me this yourself, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
Born in upstate New York...
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