Saul Austerlitz

Are David Cronenberg, Ethan Coen, and others honing their artistic vision through fiction, or just more free to be gross there?

The 17th of Tammuz, which falls on Tuesday, has additional meaning this year

Director James Gray talks about basing ‘The Immigrant’ on his own family history on the Lower East Side

Screening this week on TCM, Elia Kazan’s film is a remarkable document of a vanished era of American Jewish life

As the NBA playoffs begin, a new book revives the big stars, drugs, sex, and rivalries of Magic Johnson’s 1980s basketball dynasty

Marvin Hier puts two decades of documentary filmmaking to work—but for what cause?

A new book on sitcoms shows how the late Sherwood Schwartz, N.J. Jew in L.A., invented the modern high-concept comedy

Two Jewish women launched Modern Loss to help twenty- and thirtysomethings start a new conversation about struggling with grief

Munich authorities seem more interested in protecting an art dealer than in returning stolen works to their rightful heirs

In a candid conversation, the great filmmaker considers his Jewish Orpheus, banality, and his final word

A wave of American-influenced pop artists rethinks the Holocaust, Israelis, and shtetl stereotypes

Her fourth novel, ‘A Guide for the Perplexed,’ reanimates the past without falling into the traps of ‘Shtetlworld’ nostalgia

A surprising inscription on a first edition of The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh raises unsettling question