Elaine Margolin

Elaine Margolin is a book critic whose work has appeared in many venues, including the Washington Post, Jerusalem Post, Denver Post, and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as many prestigious literary journals.

Book Reviews by Elaine Margolin

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Many succumbed to the mesmerizing prose of Paul Auster 40 years ago when he was writing about his emotionally distant father. Auster was then only 35.

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“Nguyen is an intriguing, inventive, and perceptive writer and his mesmerizing memoir takes hold of us . . .”

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Most of us remember the almost unbearable intensity we felt for our first childhood best friend.

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Janet Malcolm died last year, and her passing was profiled in over 40,000 obituaries online. She left behind a huge entourage of fans who had spent decades immersed in her literary nonfiction.

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Like a lot of ambitious, young, and talented women, Jessica Grose was worried when she became pregnant with her first child.

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Seventy-four-year-old Art Spiegelman, creator of The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, never really liked his father. He grew up in Vladek’s shadow like a lot of children of Holocaust surv

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Fifty-seven-year-old Diana Goetsch, formerly Doug Goetsch, made the decision at 50 to surrender to the transition process and become a full-blooded transgender woman after decades of heartache.