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Mel Brooks Kicks Larry David’s Skinny Ass
Part II in a continuing series on the decline of Jewish vulgarity
Let’s All Celebrate Norman Mailer
The most swaggering and macho of Jewish writers illuminated postwar America like no one else
The Horrible and Enlightening Life of Jean Améry
In an age of easy antisemitism, the Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s work remains bitter, resentful, and hauntingly pro-Zionist
With John Murray Cuddihy’s ‘The Ordeal of Civility’ and Yuri Slezkine’s ‘The Jewish Century,’ Tablet begins a three-part look at the once-vibrant Jewish trait of not caring what the goyim think
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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
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Vol. 2, Issue 34: Sept. 15-21 • Yom Kippur readings on Jonah, ‘shnuddering,’ atonement, mortality, and Leonard Cohen; an S.Y. Agnon story; recipes for your break fast, and more


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Featured Contributor: Marco Roth
‘Leopoldstadt’ and ‘The Fabelmans’
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
Searching for what is lost in ‘Le Temps Perdu,’ María Alvarez’s artful documentary on an Argentine book club
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.