The new One Book, One Chicago selection, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, is still amazing after a dozen reads, writes Aimee Levitt.
by Aimee Levitt
One of the major plot points of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon's 2000 novel that's just been anointed this year's One Book, One Chicago, involves the Golem of Prague, a giant created from clay sometime in the 16th century and brought to life by Rabbi Judah Loew by some obscure and ancient magic in order to protect the Jews of the city. I was in grad school when I first read Kavalier & Clay.…[ Read more ]