culture

As promised, though a week late, my latest column for the Jerusalem Post is a retrospective about Jerusalem Prize winner ...

The New York Times has released its annual list of the Top 10 books of the year, and Gary Shteyngart’s ...

Is Michael Richards Jewish? That’s the question that was on too-many Jews’ minds after Seinfeld‘s Kramer went on his recent ...

Good book criticism has been virtually exiled from the popular press, and the New York Times Book Review — which ...

This morning, I blogged about the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali and his translator, Peter Cole. In July, I wrote ...

Thanks to Jewschool for highlighting this amazing video of poet Taha Muhammad Ali at the Dodge Poetry Festival earlier this ...

Today is author Don DeLillo’s 70th birthday. Sure, he’s not Jewish and — as far as I can remember — ...

The Letters section has always been my favorite part of Jewish newspapers, and the Jewish Week isn’t letting me down. ...

There’s a new kid on the Jewish media block. This week, while the older generation was in LA listening to ...

Daniel’s off today, so I’m filling in for him. It’s a Friday, so I figured I’d share something of a ...