Alexander Aciman

My explosive mission to recreate the ‘pain d’espagne’ my grandfather once made, which I never got to eat

Trying to recreate a recipe that carries a history as broad as the Mediterranean, and as specific as my grandmother’s kitchen

A remembrance of sales past

Bookworm: Britain’s most prominent defender of the Jews is also a pretty good male mystery writer

A new digital exhibit, the 1938Projekt, catalogues the final days of European Jewry and shows how easy it is to become inured to the progression of a deteriorating situation

Bookworm: ‘Kitty Zeldis’ pens a Jewish-genre fiction throwback about WASP-y anti-Semitism, in search of lost time

The film that inspired ‘You’ve Got Mail’ is a study of human desire and yearning for transcendence that remains timeless

Bookworm: The new bestselling spy thriller, ‘The Other Woman,’ excels at this one thing

Hollywood confronts anti-semitism in Elia Kazan’s 1947 film Gentleman’s Agreement.

Our columnist offers three classic titles to take to the ocean in the summer of 2018

The story of a child murderer succumbing to his dark impulses in a town on the brink of chaos is not one you’ll soon forget

Billy Wilder’s masterpiece makes you feel the humidity of 20 men in a room

Bookworm: 2018 Russia, 2008 Russia, 19th-century Russia, and America all star in the new novel by the author of ‘All the Sad Young Literary Men’

His ridiculous German accent aside, Marlon Brando delivers an unforgettable performance as a WWII spy

Orson Welles as your friendly Nazi next door, Edward G. Robinson as the long arm of the law