The Magic of Alice Hoffman
The best-selling writer infuses her new novel on the Holocaust with Jewish legend—in the form of a rare female golem. "For me," she says, "literature and magic are kind of melded together."...
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Five Books to Be an Educated Jew: Part II
Jewish thinkers and doers—including Noah Feldman, Angela Buchdahl, Fania Oz-Salzberger and Joan Nathan—share five recommendations....
Book Review | Steely Veneer, Private Struggle
I met Susan Sontag only once; it was after a dramatic reading of a translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantyk, which I went to hear with a group of friends in 1994....
Book Review | Princess Schweppessodawasser’s Surprising Romance
Language is failing Beryl Dusinbery. She is 99 years old and having trouble retrieving words. “One minute she has a word, then she hasn’t. Where does it go?...
Book Review | It Happened Here, Too
Around the middle of the afternoon on Saturday, September 22, 1928, Marion Griffiths sent her four-year-old daughter, Barbara, off to find her older brother Bobby...
Visual Moment | When the Wild Things Sang
Going back to his early line drawings, you can see that Sendak liked to populate the world with Sendaks....
Reading By Numbers: Applying Sports Analytics to Our Summer Books Symposium
Why not pick your next read by applying sports-style analytics?...
From Book to Screen: A Conversation with André Aciman & Debra Granik
12:43 13 June
in Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer 2019 Double Issue
Is the movie as good as the book? Often, the answer to this perennial question is a flat “No.” ...
Tell Us: What Are Five Must-Read Books to Be an Educated Jew?
We want to hear from you: What five books would you recommend to be an educated Jew?...
What Five Books Should You Read To Be An Educated Jew?
We asked a group of rabbis, scholars, educators, writers, experts and artists to give us their recommendations. This is the first installment of an ongoing project....