Stephen Vider

Cultural Evolution

What exactly is “post-Jewish” art?

Disengaged

A murky homeland is hard to stand by

Mmmm…brains

Night of the Living Jews is not just another Hasidic zombie movie

American Mystic

Hyman Bloom rose to fame, and fell into obscurity, with his eerie paintings of rabbis, ghosts, and demons

Creature Presentation

The Golem migrates from Prague to Springfield

The Middle-American Way of Death

A lesson Mitch Albom never learned from Morrie

Identity Politics

In David Levithan’s latest young adult novel, president-elect Abraham Stein

Great Escapes, Part Two

Six more characters to spend the summer with

A Different March

Sufjan Stevens makes a record his own way

Great Escapes

Six characters to spend the summer with