How the famed writer’s unrequited passion for Janet Sussman led to the era-defining best-seller, and how Segal, who died six years ago this week, never got over her

Memories of the Argentine literary mystic’s visit to the Holy Land, and of his nuanced Zionism

The influential writer reflects on six decades of art, worry, and Jewish Princess jokes

New book documents the break-in that revealed J. Edgar Hoover’s COINTELPRO surveillance, decades before Snowden

Another Tattler prediction come true: AMC’s 1960s New York drama series returns—full of ascendant Jews

A new generation of women is being misled into assuming an ideological tension between feminism and Zionism

A film and several books spotlight the 1970s—when the city embraced Soviet Jews, and a new world was born

How the godfather of X-rated animation—subject of recent screenings—paved the way for South Park

The genius of Steely Dan talks blacks, Jews, and Lenny Bruce—and his new record, Sunken Condos

Michael Chabon’s new novel Telegraph Avenue is typically stylish, but overwritten

The son of Viennese refugees from Hitler, the gifted, menschy composer wrote the ultimate survivor’s song

On the 40th anniversary of the historic truce negotiated by a South Bronx gang leader, a work-in-progress graphic novel traces the roots of hip-hop

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo is a beautiful film and also a document of everything that’s rotten about the generation that came of age in the 1970s

Revisiting a podcast featuring a private investigator involved with the case

A French filmmaker tackles the birth of Israel