spinoza

On Being Jewish in Amsterdam

Recently, a journalist who was interviewing me asked me to describe what it felt like to be a Jewish New ...

On Writing a Fictionalized Account of Baruch Spinoza’s Family

I’ve often been asked both by journalists and by my readers why my novel  The Elixir of Immortality  tells the ...

Spinoza, My Significant Other, and Baking Soda

I was reading a book about Spinoza this evening and had a thought about my significant other and baking soda. You ...