Guy Gavriel Kay created Devin Bar Garin, but couldn’t mention Ben-Gurion.

“Being Jewish, Sefton Goldberg . . . ”

Sasson Somekh vs. the “woke” version of Mizrahi history.

A simple protagonist and a very, very complicated people.

Dark days for Jews in literature.

Disillusionment with Communism went hand in hand with an embrace of Jewishness.

A new volume highlights the work of Saul Bellow’s friend and lover.

Wandering Jewesses.

Civilization’s weather vane.

Did his deracinated outlook subvert his own literary career?

Reviving the lost art of Jewish apologetics.

“Lava its seeds. Atoms/ Fermented forth primevally.”

H. Leyvik’s masterpiece.

Will he be placed with Sholem Asch or with S.Y. Agnon?