The Third Solitude: A Memoir Against History

“A frank love letter to modern Jewish life.” — MERVE EMRE, contributing writer, The New Yorker

An intimate memoir in essays seeking familial history and personal memory against the backdrop of the lost world of North American Jewry.

What is the past? How can we let it speak on its own terms, without forcing it into the categories of history? In The Third Solitude, Benjamin Libman gathers and weaves the threads of multiple pasts — of his community, of his family, and of himself — in an attempt...