culture

Congratulations to MJL contributor Saul Austerlitz on the publications of his first book, Money for Nothing: A History of the ...

Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union won’t be published until May 1, but the Forward has jumped the ...

Balkan Beat Box’s new album, NU MED, is available on iTunes today and will go on sale May 15th. If ...

Nathan Englander’s long-awaited follow-up to his amazing story collection For the Relief on Unbearable Urges will be published later this ...

A few weeks ago, Tamar Yellin won the first $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her novel The ...

Philip Roth has won another award, the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, named for his good ...

As promised, here’s a link to my Jerusalem Post write-up of this year’s South By Southwest music festival, with a ...

The fourth issue of Guilt & Pleasure is now out, and at first glance, it seems as good (and good-looking) ...

The Forward‘s got the scoop on novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s next writing projects. The first is a continuation to his ...

What is it about Barbra?Jewish Women’s Archive celebrates mega-star Barbra Streisand’s 1963 Broadway debut in This Week in History: Streisand has ...