Julia M. Klein Julia M. Klein, the Forward’s contributing book critic, has been a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Follow her on Twitter @JuliaMKlein. Recent Stories Jul 11, 2022 S.F. Jewish Film Fest: How Leonard Bernstein embraced his Jewishness Jan 3, 2022 Genius, jerk, misogynist, everyman — the many lives of Saul Bellow