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  • Gustav Gründgens in ‘Faust’ (1960)
    Gustav Gründgens in ‘Faust’ (1960)
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    Who Wore ‘Faust’ Best?

    Thomas Mann and his son Klaus Mann both wrote novels that updated Goethe’s ‘Faust’ for the horrors of the 20th century. Whose version will be remembered?

    byDavid P. Goldman
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    Rhapsody in Blue

    Newly restored, Chagall’s America Windows—conceived in honor of the 1976 bicentennial and popularized in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off—sparkle as never before

    byJonathan Wilson
  • Goethe Schiller monument in Weimar, Germany.
    Goethe Schiller monument in Weimar, Germany.
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    Faustian Bargains

    There are two stories of Germany and Jews: the culture of assimilated German Jews and the meeting of German culture with Jewish religion

    byDavid P. Goldman
  • C.K. Williams(Photo © Mary Cross, 2009. Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
    C.K. Williams(Photo © Mary Cross, 2009. Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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    View From the Bridge

    In Wait, poet C.K. Williams looks to literary antecedents for help in locating his Jewishness

    byDavid Kaufmann
  • (Illustration: Len Small/Tablet Magazine; photo: Flickr/Marquette LaForest)
    (Illustration: Len Small/Tablet Magazine; photo: Flickr/Marquette LaForest)
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    I Had a Dream

    The dark side of divine inspiration: one writer’s cautionary tale

    byShalom Auslander
  • The devil and Faust, as illustrated by Harry Clarke for a 1925 edition of Faust.(Wikimedia)
    The devil and Faust, as illustrated by Harry Clarke for a 1925 edition of Faust.(Wikimedia)
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    Acting Out

    A haftorah of misgivings and misplaced trust

    byLiel Leibovitz
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