A not-so-closet neoconservative?

Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the synagogue on Sabbath afternoons.

Revisiting Cynthia Ozick’s “Innovation and Redemption.”

Like a soufflé, Moonglow is lighter than it looks.

On the novelist’s letters and a “repulsive category.”

Harms and the child.

As Close to Us as Breathing.

Some thoughts on 20th-century American literature.

The rare writer focused on success rather than dysfunction.

A review of three books.

Does it belong to the Old World or the New?

In which Jewish literature retreats to a niche.

Translating the work of a great Jewish author.

Suicide bombings and peace talks, socialism and its decline, pogroms and the Holocaust.