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DeLillo II

As promised, though a week late, my latest column for the Jerusalem Post is a retrospective about Jerusalem Prize winner ...

Absurdistan Makes the Cut

The New York Times has released its annual list of the Top 10 books of the year, and Gary Shteyngart’s ...

Michael Richards: Kind of Jewish

Is Michael Richards Jewish? That’s the question that was on too-many Jews’ minds after Seinfeld‘s Kramer went on his recent ...

Reviewing Allen Ginsberg

Good book criticism has been virtually exiled from the popular press, and the New York Times Book Review — which ...

East Meets West

This morning, I blogged about the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali and his translator, Peter Cole. In July, I wrote ...

Important Poetry

Thanks to Jewschool for highlighting this amazing video of poet Taha Muhammad Ali at the Dodge Poetry Festival earlier this ...

Happy Birthday, Don

Today is author Don DeLillo’s 70th birthday. Sure, he’s not Jewish and — as far as I can remember — ...

Borat’s a Muslim!

The Letters section has always been my favorite part of Jewish newspapers, and the Jewish Week isn’t letting me down. ...

Jewcy is Born

There’s a new kid on the Jewish media block. This week, while the older generation was in LA listening to ...

I Beg to Differ with Heeb

Daniel’s off today, so I’m filling in for him. It’s a Friday, so I figured I’d share something of a ...