Letters
Letters, Summer 2025
No Afikoman, No Problem; Demon Bowls; Fearless; and Extraterrestrial Exodus
Interview
Story Evades Cogitation: An Interview with Cynthia Ozick
"I can’t and won’t reread: What’s done is done. Print is writing’s final fate."
Reviews
Reverent Unknowing
A deeply personal memoir of theological hide-and-seek.
Hollywood Balagan
Hollywood's founding is a tale of shutfus, broiges, and mother's chicken soup.
In the Shadow of No Memory
Stuart Nadler tells a new kind of ghost story.
Haunted Heritage
We know what makes a house a mansion. What makes it Jewish?
The Grand Street Riot
The rabbi's funeral that changed America.
Diaspora Scrapbook
Rachel Cockerell didn't write a word of her inventive memoir. The past did.
Sorry, No More Borscht
Alfred E. Neuman may not have been Jewish, but all his friends were.
Lost Eminence
The legacy of twentieth-century Jewish artists is more unexpected than the Spanish Inquisition.
Mobilizing Emotions
The last couple of years have been grueling for Israelis, but it's hard to remember any time when war didn't make extraordinary emotional demands on them.
The Cost of Immersion
What is the future of American Jewry's in a postethnic age?
Readings
Your Father Shoulders You: On Inheriting Paul Celan
Paul Celan raised his son in a home saturated by languages and haunted by unsayable things.
First Person
Visiting the Graves of the Righteous: Inns of Molten Blue
Graves of Tzaddikim hold many things—hopes, prayers, and sometimes even the deceased's body.
Exchange
Studying War: A Response to Matti Friedman
Viewing war as an anthropologist
Making Sense of War: A Rejoinder to Asaf Hazani
Can one understand war without talking about heroism?
Lost & Found
Golden Ledgers
In the world's first Jewish public library, bearded scholars read side-by-side with bare-armed women.
Last Word
Davening with Tevye
"Tevye moved seamlessly from “our” to “my” and from a care of his loved ones to the glories of the mythic past."
