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Our friend Joshua Henkin, whose NYTimes notable book Matrimony just came out in paperback, is guest blogging over at The ...

I was internetless in the mountains for a bit, so I missed the whole furious flurry about how Magneto might ...

A friend sent me the following hilarity…

Okay, remember when we learned about the Jewish heritage of various comic-book characters yesterday? Now, we’re going to see it ...

Earlier this week, I blogged about Vivian Gornick’s recent assertion that “Jewish writing is over.” Gornick was suggesting that the ...

This was announced a few months ago, and now a 6-page preview is up. But I haven’t seen it making ...

Music professor Francesco Lotoro talks about collecting more than 4,000 pieces composed in Nazi concentration camps.Beth Am Israel has collected ...

Ever since Jennifer 8 Lee wrote about the reemergence of the egg cream earlier this month in The New York ...

Vivian Gornick’s forthcoming book The Men in My Life includes an essay called “Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the End ...

Our newest batch of articles includes an essay of mine on Franz Kafka, a Prague writer from the turn of ...