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Julian Levinson

Nobody’s Fool
After Saul Bellow translated "Gimpel the Fool," he, Irving Howe, and Lazer Greenberg had a lechaim over schnapps. But nobody talked with Isaac Bashevis Singer.

In the Beginning, There Was Angst
Where a committed secularist would raise up the literary in place of the sacred, Adam Kirsch’s discussions in The Blessing and the Curse read more like a coda to the sacred scriptures.
Movies and Monotheism
At age 97, Herman Wouk returns to Moses and goes postmodern.