Reflections on Herman Wouk
From Tablet Magazine: The first novel I ever read was by Herman Wouk. Now, 60 years later, he’s publishing yet another one. By Morton Landowne When I became a senior citizen a few years...
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The Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2015
From Tablet Magazine Stories about dogs and cats and even Santa Claus make the perfect Hanukkah gift this year By Marjorie Ingall It’s tough to find the perfect Jewish gift to give your kids...
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson
From Tablet Magazine In this view from Ferguson’s planet Kissinger’s Harvard critics were not only pinkly fatuous moralists but dishonest, carping, bitter men trying to whitewash their own dirty records. Some of them were,...
Jews With Guns
Are they to be admired or dreaded? Three new fiction books take on the legacy of Jewish passivity with sometimes-flawed, sometimes-gripping violent fantasies. By Adam Kirsch What makes a Jew pick up a gun?...
Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
And the Mibby goes to… Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. This book was probably a surprise nomination to a lot of people because it’s a really funny book. Funny books...
Un bon fils (A Good Son) by Pascal Bruckner
My Father, the Anti-Semite Pascal Bruckner, the French writer and New Philosopher, on his new book, his family’s Nazi sympathies, the rise of hatred in Europe, and the crisis of radical Islam “Your father...
Doctorow and Poe: A tale of two Edgars, and the predestination of names
The mysterious initials in E.L. Doctorow’s name—what do they stand for? From the obituary in the New York Times, by Bruce Weber, I never did learn the significance of the L., for “Lawrence.” But...
It’s a Small, Small, Small Press World
Where Jewish writers are finding homes these days, and why By Adam Kirsch …The real question for the future of publishing—and, more important, of literature—is what happens to the 99 percent of books that...
Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist by Pierre Birnbaum
Léon Blum (1872–1950), France’s prime minister three times, socialist activist, and courageous opponent of the pro-Nazi Vichy regime, profoundly altered French society. It is Blum who is responsible for France’s forty-hour week and its...
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of...
