In 1972, he was a wounded, disillusioned political observer who turned a beating in Chicago into a potent source of rage at the machine
Timothy Crouse’s brilliant book about the servile self-importance of political reporters, ‘The Boys on the Bus,’ describes a disease that now infects the entire country
How my family became friends with the humble and kind baseball great
Remembering the heilige yid of Manhattan’s West Side in the 1960s and ’70s
The new documentary ‘Eva Hesse,’ opening this week, explores the too short, too beautiful life of an art heroine
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
