New Directions
Master Critic Harold Bloom Likes This Poet. A Lot.
The great Yale literary scholar introduces new poetry by Peter Cole, in ‘The Invention of Influence’
Lou Reed’s Rabbi
The rock star’s new tribute to his teacher, the writer Delmore Schwartz, illuminates their common genius
Mystic Goddess of Brazil
Writer Clarice Lispector’s exoticism had much to do with her Jewishness; her literary vocabulary did not
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How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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