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Inspired Schnitzel

The latest installment of Adeena Sussman’s MJL food column “The Inspired Kitchen” is now available. The newest recipe: Schnitzel (Israeli ...

Pitchfork to Matisyahu

Pitchfork has weighed in on the new Matisyahu EP, No Place to Be, and it’s not pretty. The big problem ...

Making It

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I re-examine Norman Podhoretz’s Making It, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary ...

Gershon Shaked z”l

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

There is No More Fiction

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

Tillie Olsen z”l

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

Literary Feuds

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

Judging a Book by Its Cover

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

More Ideas, More Rushkoff

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

Ozick on Baeck

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