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Featured: David Mikics
Nearly 20 years after the great Jewish and American novelist’s death, we have never been more in need of his thirst for life
Harvard’s Derek Penslar Helps Make the World Safer for Antisemitism
A cultural studies professor who makes excuses for bigoted anti-Zionism is appointed to lead the university’s disingenuous ‘Task Force on Combating Antisemitism’
More ‘Anti-Zionist’ Insanity Your Kid Will Learn at NYU
Sonali Thakkar’s grotesque new book about Jewish ‘whiteness’ shows that the oldest hatred is also the most plastic
Susan Sontag and George Steiner star in ‘Maestros & Monsters’
Freed from the dreary, nauseating oppression of Ceausescu’s communist surveillance state, the great Romanian author is thrown back on himself, books, and the Jews
A Wandering Jew
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Marco Roth on literature and culture in exile.
Shalom Goldman’s surprising Zionist allies
Shalom Goldman, Professor of Religion at Middlebury College, illuminates unexpected passions about Israel
John Steinbeck’s Promised Land
The great novelist’s travels in Israel showed him what America had lost
Raymond Carver, Israeli Writer
Though the great American storyteller never felt at home during his months in Tel Aviv, Israelis saw themselves in his direct sensibility
Philip K. Dick’s Last Great Obsession
The Dead Sea Scrolls blew the sci-fi writer’s mind
The poet’s philo-Semitism and visit to Jerusalem had a profound influence on him, and on Yehuda Amichai
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Jeremy Sigler
Swipe for highlights from the archive of our longtime arts critic and author, most recently, of the book of poetry, Goodbye Letter, published by Hunters Point Press.
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Lucian Freud’s Fat Lady Sings
MAY 21, 2019
Flesh, set free by a ‘despicable genius,’ or ensnared in the male gaze?
EMILY BERKEY
A Conversation With Marjorie Perloff
APRIL 1, 2019
The fearlessly outspoken critic and Stanford titan on the contemporary poetry canon, the complexities of O.J. Simpson, and the non-Zen of John Cage
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The Kabbalah of Rothko
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
In the gap between transcendental and concrete experience, 48 years after the painter’s death
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND VENUS OVER MANHATTAN
Peter Saul Sabotages Everything, Including Himself
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
The painter learns to ‘live Dada’
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Powerless in the Face of Beauty: Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
An exhibit about the cosmetics queen shows at what cost she taught women to power their way through beauty’s slow fade