A Conversation
Adam Kirsch, one of our favorite contemporary critics, sits down with Abe Socher to discuss everything from his childhood (turns out, a critic’s eye does run in families), to why there seem to be so few Orthodox American novelists.
Upcoming Conversations
From Pogroms to Philip Roth
Join JRB editor Abraham Socher in a conversation with Stephen J. Zipperstein Zipperstein about the arc of Ashkenazi Jewish life in the twentieth century, the art of biography, and Philip Roth, the enfant terrible and, eventually, éminence grise of American Jewish letters.
Past Conversations
A Conversation
Watch a recap of JRB editor Abe Socher’s conversation with acclaimed fiction writer Allegra Goodman on the art of fiction and the creation of her novels, Intuition, The Cookbook Collector,…
Kafka’s Manuscripts and the Hidden Libraries of Jerusalem
Benjamin Balint and JRB editor Abe Socher discuss the international legal battle over Franz Kafka’s unpublished papers, as well as the libraries and book collections of Jerusalem that few people know about.