Fact and argument alone cannot build forbearance and charity across cultural boundaries.
A seder with Edmund Wilson.
A leftist’s convoluted case for a conservative critic.
Did John Simon’s origins inform his idiosyncratic opinions?
The anxiety of criticism.
Paul de Man, the man.
There is no Torah without interpretation.
The principle of havdalah.
A niece’s memoir of her parents and her uncle, the scholar Erich Heller.