The poet Joseph Lease waxes prophetic while wondering what prophesy can mean in an age of corporate greed and round-the-clock cable news

Ammiel Alcalay’s new book—a challenging collection of notes, photographs, and diary entries he wrote in the 1970s—shows the young scholar and experimental poet through the eyes of his older self

Robert Pinsky’s career-spanning Selected Poems highlights his movement from meditative formalist to Whitmanesque bard

Painter Archie Rand’s 10-piece Had Gadya series—now on view in Philadelphia—underscores the darkness and complexity at the heart of the Seder’s final song

In her new collection, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, Adrienne Rich reckons with the question of how to write lyric poetry in the face of war and economic hardship

Poets Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller, coauthors of the anthology Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, explore the possibilities and contradictions of secular Jewishness

Aberrant Marxist, heretical Jew, maverick social theorist—Walter Benjamin remains difficult to classify, but his mystique only continues to grow

In Wait, poet C.K. Williams looks to literary antecedents for help in locating his Jewishness

In a new memoir, philosopher Stanley Cavell reflects on what it means to be alone

Karen Weiser and the poetry of first things