Literature
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.
Mosaic and Ruth R. Wisse invite you to a special holiday dramatization of the classic Yiddish story.
Free love in Anna Karenina.
The novelist in search of a literary father.
Morningside Heights.
