David Kaufmann teaches literature at George Mason University.
The poet Joseph Lease waxes prophetic while wondering what prophesy can mean in an age of corporate greed and round-the-clock cable news
Ammiel Alcalay’s new book—a challenging collection of notes, photographs, and diary entries he wrote in the 1970s—shows the young scholar and experimental poet through the eyes of his older self
Robert Pinsky’s career-spanning Selected Poems highlights his movement from meditative formalist to Whitmanesque bard
Painter Archie Rand’s 10-piece Had Gadya series—now on view in Philadelphia—underscores the darkness and complexity at the heart of the Seder’s final song
In her new collection, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, Adrienne Rich reckons with the question of how to write lyric poetry in the face of war and economic hardship
Poets Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller, coauthors of the anthology Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, explore the possibilities and contradictions of secular Jewishness
Aberrant Marxist, heretical Jew, maverick social theorist—Walter Benjamin remains difficult to classify, but his mystique only continues to grow
In Wait, poet C.K. Williams looks to literary antecedents for help in locating his Jewishness
In a new memoir, philosopher Stanley Cavell reflects on what it means to be alone
Karen Weiser and the poetry of first things
Rachel Blau DuPlessis and the poetry of textual reverence
Poet Michael Heller wonders if the painter Max Beckmann foresaw the attacks of 9/11
Two Russian-Jewish-American poets illustrate the line between immigrant and exile
Poet Edward Hirsch and the dignity of everyday existence
Charles Bernstein and the poetry of antic glee
A new biography takes a look at Derrida’s philosophy of disillusionment
Stanley Moss is either the most religiously profane or profanely religious poet around
Poetry inspired by architecture, prophecy, and the immigration experience
