Members of the Scribe

People sometimes ask: What would you like your book to accomplish? In this case, my answer is easy: I would be thrilled ...

Earlier this summer, I mingled among a group of amateur and professional genealogists at an international Paris conference exploring the ...

Most everyone has a family tree. But how do you turn a dry chart of birth and death dates into ...

The moment the cardboard box from New York arrived, I felt a strange mixture of elation and melancholy. The package ...

This week, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchanged ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the author. Today, ...

This week,  Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the author. ...

This week, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the author. Here, ...

This week, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the author. ...

This week, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the author. Today, ...

This past May I published an essay in The New York Times titled “Do the Jews Own Anxiety?” Not long afterward, ...

In my last post, I described the technical difficulties that occurred when I appeared on Talk of the Nation earlier this ...

I know a little something about hearing voices. My first book,  Muses, Madmen, and Prophets , was about auditory hallucinations ...