Category Archives: Reviews

In the Company of Newfies (1996), Syracuse Herald Journal/Post-Standard

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Julie Lerman
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The Girl That He Marries (1979) – Village Voice

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Julie Lerman

   “has been compared to Fear of Flying” “Lerman’s slyly irreverent sensibility, one of the most idiosyncratic in contemporary prose. Her comic range is enormous.”

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God’s Ear (1989) – Washington Times Review

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Julie Lerman

    “You have company coming, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and E.L. Doctorow”

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God’s Ear (1989) – New York Times Review

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Julie Lerman

  “Here is a unique voice — wildly funny, achingily spiritual, profoundly Jewish”

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NY Times Book Review of The Girl that He Marries

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Julie Lerman

“Outstripping Philip Roth in his own milieu”

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New York Times Book Review of Call Me Ishtar, 1973

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Julie Lerman

“Rhoda Lerman is a find. Go out and find her.”  

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God’s Ear (1989) – Publisher’s Weekly Review

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Julie Lerman

Like a Chagall painting translated to print, this passionate, hilarious, God-infused novel … (read online)

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Animal Acts (1994) : Publisher’s Weekly Review

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Julie Lerman

“Justly known as a writer’s writer, Lerman produces fascinating plots and lush, seductive prose in the service of transcendent questions. Her sixth novel (after God’s Ear ) is a tour de force” (read it online)  

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