My father’s artwork was always how I made sense of the world around me. The sometimes scary, ghetto Lower East ...

Engaging with Torah is like yoga for the mind: It keeps our perspectives flexible and creativity strong.

Philip Roth experiments with reality.

Soo looks like I will never again be perusing LivingSocial for a teeth-whitening deal ever again. The popular flash-sale website ...

Moving a body with a baby.

Now that my previous blog established to everyone’s complete satisfaction that Louis Marshall ought to be considered a paramount figure in the ...

In Judaism, the question of when "ensoulment" takes place is both unanswerable and irrelevant to the issue of abortion.

The fried chicken skin crackling is making a comeback.

Cutbacks, scandals, and hope.

Lydia Millet’s new book Love in Infant Monkeys is a collection of short stories about the interaction between animals and ...