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
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?
The Five Books Project
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.
Book Review | Before Heschel Became Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel once towered as America’s foremost Jewish public intellectual. In this hour, he might well be the thinker of the hour.
Book Review | A Jewish Outsider in Paris
Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Robert Siegel Review
Judith Viorst Talks Nearing 90
At 88 years old, Viorst doesn’t fail to remind us how fiercely funny she is in her appropriately titled poetry collection: Nearing 90 and Other Comedies of Late Life.
Book Review | To Heal the World
Neumann claims that liberal Judaism in America hijacked the Jewish tradition by distorting the concept of tikkun olam to fit their left-leaning and “anti-Israel” politics.
Book Review | Why the Left Left Israel
Vivian Gornick reviews Susie Linfield’s The Lions’ Den, a book critiquing the Left’s stance on Israel through a variety of notable thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, and others.
Book Review | JDate for the Dead
Author Geraldine Brooks reviews Nathan Englander’s new book, kaddish.com