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My Favorite Anti-Semite
More from our occasional series of tributes to writers, artists, philosophers, and others who hate us and to why we still find value in their work.


The director’s films tackled the grandest questions in German culture and politics, before he turned his critical eye to the Jews
BY MARDEAN ISAAC


The 20th-century master of horror admired Hitler but married a Jew and hated ‘alien’ cultures but created some of the most memorable ones in literature
BY HUNTER C. EDEN


He was the greatest and strangest of all ball players, a fierce competitor, and a hateful person
BY ARI HOFFMAN


Why the German-language writer and memoirist yearned for an era he never knew
BY WESLEY YANG


Kaddish for the late poet with a history of bigotry, from a poet with a feeling for jazz
BY JAKE MARMER


The progressive-era novelist’s greedy, red-haired, Polish Jew, Zerkow, is the 20th century’s greatest golem
BY ELISA NEW


Regardless of whether or not we should forgive our favorite artists for these sorts of opinions, one thing is clear: We definitely want to.
BY ALEXANDER ACIMAN
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Featured Contributor: Marco Roth
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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.