A world of avant-garde Jewish art was destroyed by the Holocaust, along with the ability of publishers and readers alike to see Jews simply as artists
Exhibit at the de Young in San Francisco
In their quest for prestigious industry prizes, did the Associated Press, The New York Times, Reuters, and other news organizations sidestep journalistic ethics?
How the schizoid collectivist discourse of TikTok captured the youth, and why their terrified and castrated elders are the bigger problem
Jessica Jacobs’s new poetry collection
Mumford & Sons co-founder Winston Marshall hopes to turn online culture debates into a source of community
Our correspondent concludes a literary journey through wartime Ukraine
Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ is a good movie with very stupid politics
A new survey reveals an alarming degree of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish bias in American literary circles and institutions
The great New Yorker and New Republic critic discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov and despised the federal income tax. He was also a passionate and erudite champion of the Hebrew language, Jewish culture, and the Jewish state.
‘A Definition’ by Eve Grubin
A new translation
Jews and Blacks mingled easily in the American music scene of the 1940s and 1950s because they had much in common, and because it was fun
The secular surrealist Jewish poetry of Robert Desnos
Authors need to stop relying on victim narratives to sell books—not only because it tokenizes minorities, but also because it makes one dependent on the whims of liberal elites who are quick to adopt new pets
Nearly 20 years after the great Jewish and American novelist’s death, we have never been more in need of his thirst for life
The high arts are becoming an open sewer fueled by antisemitic hate. How can we continue to publish and create?
A true story for April Fools’ Day