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Vol. 2, Issue 42: Nov. 10-16 • Jainism in America, the real genocides, Argentina’s nearly Jewish Trump, a roundtable with Black Jews, a recipe for Thanksgiving, and more


Vol. 2, Issue 41: Nov. 3 - 9 • Advice one month after the massacre, the Talmud as self-help book, excerpts from The Scroll, finding joy in Shabbat, a classic challah recipe, and more


Vol. 2, Issue 40: Oct. 27 - Nov. 2 • How France’s terror anticipated Israel’s, defending Jewish students in the Ivy League, dispatch from Galilee medical center, and more


Vol. 2, Issue 39: Oct. 20 - 26 • Israel at War: The undoing of wunderkind Jake Sullivan, Hamas and the woke left, a report from a war wedding, reflecting on Birthright, and more


Vol. 2, Issue 37: Oct. 6 - 12 • Special Edition • Stop Being Shocked: The ideas, institutions, and people that caused the collapse


Vol. 2, Issue 13 Passover Special: An analysis of disinformation, a Florida Shabbos, backpacker Seders in Nepal, Haggadot before Maxwell House, and much more, including six recipes for a complete Seder meal


The Year in Review: A special blockbuster double issue featuring the best of Tablet’s insight, reporting, and great storytelling from 2022


Beach Reads 2022: An amazing, 113-page, free anthology of some of our best writing, for you and your hammock.


Issue 26: In full, Armin Rosen’s in-depth report on the background of the uniquely American life of Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Also: surveillance, Judaism in translation, chocolate, and more.


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October 7th marked a rupture in time—a moment that made the before and after feel irreconcilable. Israel and the Jewish people now live in the fallout of that day. This collection presents reflections on grief and war by a new generation of Israeli writers, whose work will shape our imagination of the future.
‘Carlos’: The Best Political Film of the 21st Century
The Terrorist Who Mistook His Life for a Movie
‘Carlos’ is the most complex and exhaustive film about a phenomenon that has defined the politics of the past half-century
BY MARCO ROTH
Olivier Assayas’ filmed essay about the icon of 1970s terrorist chic shows us a man who needs to kill in order to prove he exists
BY DAVID MIKICS
The Terrorist, the State, and the Student
Some abstractions after Olivier Assayas’ ‘Carlos’
BY DAVID SUGARMAN
The superstar of old-school terrorism seizes the spotlight in Olivier Assayas’ ‘Carlos’
BY J. HOBERMAN
Featured Contributor: Marco Roth
Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ is a collection of auto-fictional poems from a master of self-validating ambiguity
A new anti-memoir memoir revisits a critical moment in the history of air piracy while plumbing the false consciousness of American Jews
A new completist edition of Kafka’s diaries lures readers into the Kafkaesque experience of seeing the author dissolve into an auto-fictional scrapheap
Rachel Aviv’s Journey to the Ends of Psychiatry
Janet Malcolm’s successor at The New Yorker has a different take on the impossible profession
Marco Roth talks to, yells at, and pleads with Joshua Cohen about his novel, ‘Moving Kings’
And more from Tablet’s Book Critic at Large.
Newsletter
Film, music, visual arts, and more.
Also by Andrew Fox
How the prolific writer Barry N. Malzberg showed me my passion was just Judaism in a spacesuit
The Great Swamp Monster Confluence of 1971
Tracing the tangled, Jewish origins of three iconic comic book characters
Expanding Your Tribe in the New Age of Conformity
Far from the divisive tenets of critical race theory, Americans in reality share an infinite number of commonalities, thanks to the different roles each of us play in our private lives
Godzilla’s Jewish Hollywood Friend
The iconic monster owes much of his American success to the savvy, cigar-smoking producer Henry G. Saperstein
Featured Contributor


Jeremy Sigler
Swipe for highlights from the archive of our longtime arts critic and author, most recently, of the book of poetry, Goodbye Letter, published by Hunters Point Press.


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Lucian Freud’s Fat Lady Sings
MAY 21, 2019
Flesh, set free by a ‘despicable genius,’ or ensnared in the male gaze?


EMILY BERKEY
A Conversation With Marjorie Perloff
APRIL 1, 2019
The fearlessly outspoken critic and Stanford titan on the contemporary poetry canon, the complexities of O.J. Simpson, and the non-Zen of John Cage


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The Kabbalah of Rothko
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
In the gap between transcendental and concrete experience, 48 years after the painter’s death


COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND VENUS OVER MANHATTAN
Peter Saul Sabotages Everything, Including Himself
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
The painter learns to ‘live Dada’


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Powerless in the Face of Beauty: Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
An exhibit about the cosmetics queen shows at what cost she taught women to power their way through beauty’s slow fade