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Fiction and Essays

War and Palestine

The great screenwriter remembers a wartime visit to the Holy Land

By Walter Bernstein · February 1, 2017

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The Recantation of Albert Maltz: A Pre-History of PC Stalinism

On his 98th birthday, the sad story of one writer’s struggle with the bullying from within his own political party

By Ron Capshaw · October 27, 2016

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‘Don’t Your People Got None of Your Own Music?’

Confessions of a Jewish teenage folkie

By J. Hoberman · June 30, 2015

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The Forgotten Founder of ‘Partisan Review’ Wrote Porn and Thrillers

What happened when Kenneth Fearing’s Communist sympathies came up against his ideas about art?

By Ron Capshaw · July 31, 2014

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You May Not Like BDS—But Defending Academic Freedom Protects You, Too

The principle, invoked on both sides of the ASA boycott debate, is unique in American law and reflects the special status of scholarship

By Jay Starr · February 27, 2014

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Disconcerting Wipeout

How marrying Marilyn Monroe ruined Arthur Miller’s genius

By Adam Kirsch · October 6, 2009

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Writer Budd Schulberg Dies

Writer, former Communist, name-namer, and maybe bad for the Jews

By Marissa Brostoff · August 6, 2009