November 3, 2006
David Mamet's Jewish Turn
Devotees of David Mamet will be in for an unsettling shock when they read his incendiary rant against assimilation, The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews. Even Mamet's shrewdest interpreterslike John Lahr in the United States and Michael Billington in England, major critics who continue to champion his workwill, I suspect, find Mamet's blistering jeremiad about the psychic and emotional costs of alienation from the (Jewish) tribe hard to like, perhaps even impossible to
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