Daphne Merkin’s seductive, self-referential new novel, ‘22 Minutes of Unconditional Love,’ plays the ballad of the voyeur
Not the most popular, or the tastiest. The most Jewish.
Daphne Merkin’s alarmingly powerful memoir, ‘This Close to Happy,’ delves into the childhood wreckage and adult emptiness of ‘the process of depression’
Daphne Merkin talks about orphaned dolls, Swedish mattresses, and her ragbag of luminous essays
New books and events from contributors to the Jewish Encounters Series
Talking with Daphne Merkin about ‘American mishegas’
Brush up on your history and learn more about the nominees
After a controversial but predictable debate, a leading New York psychoanalytic society changes its name
Unzipped: Those who do and those who don’t—frank talk about Jews and sex
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In An Exclusive Love, Johanna Adorján tries to make sense of how her Hungarian Jewish grandparents took their own lives—together—decades after having survived the Holocaust
A death becomes a rebirth, and more
The artist Avigdor Arikha, who died in 2010, lived—and painted—with gusto
Merkin delves into a psychologist’s past, and more in the news
Waving ‘The White Ribbon,’ of God and video games, and more
Trouble JTS, preparing for Valentine’s Day, and more
American Girl teaches the economic realities of the old Lower East Side—and of today
Rosh Hashanah resolutions from Matisyahu, Michael Showalter, Ayelet Waldman, and others