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    Beyond Poetry

    An appreciation of Laura Riding, the great Jewish modernist poet who abandoned her genius to grow oranges in Florida

    byBlake Smith
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    The World as They Found It

    How the midcentury modernism of J.D. Salinger and George Segal reflected an American Jewish generation

    byFrances Brent
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    A Conversation With Marjorie Perloff

    The fearlessly outspoken critic and Stanford titan on the contemporary poetry canon, the complexities of O.J. Simpson, and the non-Zen of John Cage

    byJeremy Sigler
  • Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975). Lincoln Kirstein. circa 1931
    Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975). Lincoln Kirstein. circa 1931
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    Lincoln Kirstein at MoMA

    The enigmatic, influential benefactor of the arts comes home to the temple of modernism he once shunned

    byFrances Brent
  • Lawrence Durrell building a stone wall, 1960, with his third wife, Claude-Marie Vincendon.(Loomis Dean/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
    Lawrence Durrell building a stone wall, 1960, with his third wife, Claude-Marie Vincendon.(Loomis Dean/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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    Lawrence Durrell’s Posthumous New e-Novel ‘Judith’ Is the Modernist ‘Exodus’

    The expatriate British writer’s unfinished potboiler marks a milestone in depictions of Jewish characters

    byTadzio Koelb
  • 'Wedding in the Cemetery, 1932' by Leon Garland.(Spertus)
    'Wedding in the Cemetery, 1932' by Leon Garland.(Spertus)
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    Lighting Candles With the Jewish Modernists

    Did the salons of 1920s Paris have a  Shabbat rival in Chicago?

    byAlexander Aciman
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    Modern Love

    Brooklyn-born photographer Julius Shulman, the subject of two recent books, captured Los Angeles’ development into a center of modernism

    byJessica Ritz
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    Broad Strokes

    The Jewish Museum avoids making Modigliani into his generation’s Jim Morrison, but does it paint itself into a corner with another cliché?

    byDavid Grosz
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