Moment’s Summer Reading Guide 2026
Moment's 2026 Summer Reading Guide is full of mysteries, thrillers and narrative non-fiction to keep you entertained.
Moment’s Winter Reading Guide 2026
Great books to read and gift!
Carolivia Herron’s Forbidden Story
Carolivia Herron has to reschedule our interview. “I just remembered,” she emails me, “I’m supposed to do a re-enactment as my enslaved great-grandmother for a...
Book Review | Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment
Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment
By G. Edward White
Oxford University Press, 408 pp.
Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson felt unfulfilled in the early 1940s...
Book Review | Civil War-Era Jews, as Divided as the Nation
For U.S. Jews today, their forebears’ division and equivocation in the face of slavery’s evils can only be a cause for sober reflection.
Book Review | Three Windows on a War in Progress
There is no pleasure in accompanying Sharabi through his ordeal and his personal losses, but we can get some pleasure from the vivid description of his liberation day.
Essay | Sylvia Plath’s Private Jewish Problem
Plath is simply not in Larkin’s league of bigots.
Book Review | The Forgotten Bond Between Teddy and the Tribe
In many ways Theodore Roosevelt was limited by the ideas of his times.
Book Review | A Golden Age Seen Through Its Icons
Sip it slowly, and live or relive this golden age—an era giddy with hope, a time of light.
Book Review | Everything Matters: A Surprising Take on Spirituality, Ethics and Daily Life
I came away feeling that this book ought to be read by all kinds of Jews.
Book Review | It’s All Happened Here
“Red Scare” doesn’t describe a country devoted to free speech and willing to fight for the right of others to express dissenting opinions.