The Marvelous Mr. Lee
Stan Lee is credited as the creator of Marvel Comics and the ever-expanding MCU. But the story of his life and work is more complex.
23
Feb
08
Jan
The Books That Got Away
When you become a book review editor, the first thing you notice is how many books get published every year, every month, every week. T...
01
Dec
Moment Zoominar: Can Robots be Jewish? And Other Pressing Questions of Modern Life with Amy E. Schwartz and Laura Blumenfeld
Amy E. Schwartz, in conversation with New York Times best-selling author Laura Blumenfeld, discusses whether robots can be Jewish and other perennial questions, such as what Judaism has to say about love, miracles, the afterlife and so much more from Amy’s new book, Can Robots Be Jewish? And Other Pressing Questions of Modern Life , a selection of questions and answers drawn from Moment’s ever-popular Ask the Rabbis column. This smart and provocative talk is perfect for anyone interested in the rich diversity of Jewish thought on contemporary questions.
02
Oct
When Spring Turned to Winter in the Middle East
Harvard law professor Noah Feldman’s book about Arab political self-determination and self-destruction is called The Arab Winter: A Tragedy. And he really means it. Grief emanates from every line of this reevaluation of the Arab Spring, which revisits the hope followed by disaster in Egypt and Syria; the utopian Islamism that produced the hellish dystopia of ISIS; and, perhaps most painful, the success in Tunisia that showed the other tragedies were not inevitable.
01
Sep
Moment Zoominar: Fiction, History and Politics with Statesman Michael Oren
Former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, in conversation with professor of American foreign policy, Michael Mandelbaum about Israeli history, politics and Oren’s new book The Night Archer, a collection of short fiction stories.
30
Jun
Faulkner the Anti-Fascist
There are clear anti-fascist themes in Faulkner’s work, long before awareness of and opposition to fascism became widespread in the United States.
22
Jun
Book Review | Nuance in the Fight between Good and Evil
1939: A People’s History
By Frederick Taylor
W. W. Norton & Company; 448 pp; $30
Library shelves are full of books whose t...
16
Jun
Books About Time
Does time move differently for Jews? Does Judaism have its own view of time?
16
Jun
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: An Interview with Esther Safran Foer
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
By Esther Safran Foer
Tim Duggan Book
$27.00, 226 pp.
Though her...
10
Jun
Opinion Interview | Now is the Time to Fix The Climate
Zero Hour, the anti-climate-change group that Jamie S. Margolin founded two years ago when she was 16, calls itself “a movement of unstoppable youth.”