Literature
The author The Gulag Archipelago and his critics.
The characters in her new story collection are fully formed creatures of that transitional 20th-century moment between European Jewish survivors and American forgetters.
“A parable of anti-Semitism.”
A love letter to art and an indictment of the barbarism that all the beauty in the world was powerless to stop.
Why not see the fearfully diffident Saul by way of Harpo Marx?
What a new biographical novel misses.
The great Russian Jewish writer was caught between revolution and daily life, Bolsheviks and Jews, a desire to kill and an inability to pull the trigger. Did he ever choose?
In his new essay collection, my friend Hillel Halkin offers an autobiographical overview, unorthodoxly given, in a lifetime’s worth of literary attempts.
A lesson for Sally Rooney from a children’s book.
A complicated relationship.
Is Israel the only source of interesting material for a Jewish novelist?
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus and “The Silver Platter” by Natan Alterman distill, reinforce, and hallow what makes each nation distinctive.
Made public for the first time.
A defense.
