{"id":1437,"date":"2023-01-16T17:29:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:29:20","slug":"vanity-fair-best-books-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2023\/01\/16\/vanity-fair-best-books-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanity Fair: Best Books of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Matti Friedman<\/strong>\u2019s concise and poetic book recounts Cohen\u2019s highly improvised concert tour of the front lines of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The little-known episode marks a resurrection of sorts in Cohen\u2019s life. Holed up on the island of Hydra before the war, he was in a personal crisis: Dried up creatively, he had spoken of retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The war deeply rattles his sensibilities and awakens his sense of purpose\u2014within a few months of the war\u2019s end, he releases one of his best albums,\u00a0<em>New Skin for the Old Ceremony,<\/em>\u00a0and reenters the musical world, becoming over time the priestly elder statesman we\u2019ve come to know, the focus of near religious devotion.\u00a0<em>\u2014Eric Miles, Visuals Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(For the complete <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> list, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/photos\/2022\/12\/best-books-of-2022\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matti Friedman\u2019s concise and poetic book recounts Cohen\u2019s highly improvised concert tour of the front lines of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The little-known episode marks a resurrection of sorts in Cohen\u2019s life. Holed up on the island of Hydra before the war, he was in a personal crisis: Dried up creatively, he had &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}