And British insistence that there is no such thing.

Jewish literature, like Jews, will either become more overtly Jewish, or cease to be Jewish at all.

Joyless exuberance.

The adventures of an American Jewish novelist.

A once-bustling immigrant city.

If kitsch has a “fairy-tale glow,” then Here I Am is positively radiant.

More than Saul Bellow or Philip Roth, James Salter (né Horowitz) captures the situation of assimilated American Jews—by never writing from a Jewish perspective.