culture

I don’t mean to start the post-holiday period with death notices, but the great Israeli literary critic Gershon Shaked died ...

I emailed Alice Mattison (author of the wonderful story collection In Case We’re Separated) and asked her to share some ...

A couple of weeks ago, I hosted an event at the 92nd Street Y with the writer Alice Mattison. When ...

On the Daily Shvitz yesterday, Elisa Albert referred to an amazing article from the New York Times last month about ...

Rich Cohen’s Sweet and Low has garnered one of the quirkier end-of-season literary honors: Bookslut has named it one of ...

Mobius over at Jewschool has posted a long and thoughtful response to the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question. Rather than ...

The New York Times Book Review this weekend featured an essay by novelist Cynthia Ozick about her intellectual adventure from ...

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

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

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