How the logic of machines makes us less human
Some of the biggest collections of anti-Jewish artifacts in the world are kept by Jews. Should they be preserved in museums, or are some things better left unseen?
In ‘Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew,’ his autobiography-cum-history of Iraqi Jewry, historian Avi Shlaim’s life unfolds like a fairy tale
Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ is a collection of auto-fictional poems from a master of self-validating ambiguity
Despite the proliferation of anti- and post-Zionist rhetoric in Britain, Israel remains a central pillar of Anglo-Jewish identity
Music made Cohen rich and famous, but it deprived us of the brilliance of his poetry
American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call ‘Zionism.’ To fight them, we need to understand the origins of their beliefs in the Soviet academic propaganda apparatus.
Freed from the dreary, nauseating oppression of Ceausescu’s communist surveillance state, the great Romanian author is thrown back on himself, books, and the Jews
An interview with ‘Israel’s eternal dissident’ on her New York exhibition
Thirteen years after Mark Linkous’ suicide, a new album from Sparklehorse serves as a reminder of the singer’s gifts
My encounters with Carl Andre
Part one of a series on Ukrainian Jewish writers
A response to Vladislav Davidzon
The Russian American master and the anxieties of Jewish conversion
Ilya Khrazhanovsky, the controversial filmmaker who served as artistic director of the Babyn Yar Memorial Foundation, resigns amid an investigation into his oligarch patron
Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature
When Chaim Topol died this past March, few mentioned one of the actor’s most impressive achievements
Woke Bolsheviks are destroying a once-great art form from within
