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In a Yellow Wood
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781841594316
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 712
  • RRP: $50.00
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In a Yellow Wood

Selected Stories and Essays

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‘The Emily Dickinson of the Bronx’.
A beautifully curated and unique hardcover collection of the best of Ozick's stories and essays, drawn from across the six-decade career of one of our preeminent writers - just in time for her 97th birthday, and with the introduction by the author.

Selected by Cynthia Ozick from a dozen books written across more than fifty years, the essays and short stories gathered here constitute a summing-up of her remarkable literary career. In such classic essays as \"Who Owns Anne Frank?,\" \"What Helen Keller Saw,\" \"Dostoevsky’s Unabomber,\" and \"Transcending the Kafkaesque,\" Ozick examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary literary and moral issues, and looks into the wellsprings of her own lifelong engagement with literature. In her short stories, including \"A Hebrew Sibyl,\" \"What Happened to the Baby?,\" \"Dictation,\" \"The Biographer’s Hat,\" and \"The Conversion of the Jews,\" Ozick demonstrates again and again her stylistic brilliance and the originality of her distinctive interweaving of the strands of history and myth.
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781841594316
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 712
  • RRP: $50.00
Categories:

About the author

Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has won various prizes and awards for her novels, short stories, poems and essays. Her books include The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories, Bloodshed and Three Novellas, Trust (a novel), The Messiah of Stockholm (a novel), The Shawl (a novella and story), Art & Ardor (essays) and Metaphor & Memory (essays). What Henry James Knew, her most recent collection of essays, is a companion volume to Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character. Her work has been translated into most major languages.
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Praise for In a Yellow Wood

If there is such a thing as a literary pantheon in America, then Cynthia Ozick is surely its Athena . . . Ozick casts sentences that fairly pulse with the electricity of a highly charged mind.

The Washington Post

Ozick is double-barreled. She's an inventive and revelatory fiction writer and an exacting, battle-ready critic; an impish writer of conscience and a creative intellectual.

Los Angeles Times

As an essayist, Ozick is a very good storyteller. Her arguments are plots . . . They twist and turn, digress, slow down and speed up, surprise with sudden illuminations.

The New York Times Book Review

She is out to reclaim the lost glory of the essay and restore some of its original sinewy meaning. You can hear the ground shaking with her mental fight, the crunch of her opinions.

Independent