American Jewish literature
The characters in her new story collection are fully formed creatures of that transitional 20th-century moment between European Jewish survivors and American forgetters.
A devout Christian finds comfort in these tales of ḥasidic rebels.
Sympathetic to Israel and hostile to the radical left, Roth was not always the rebellious Jew.
Morningside Heights.
Isaac Rosenfeld and the plight of the young American Jewish intellectual.
In praise of an unfashionable literary master.
An inadvertent warning about the dangers of political infantilization.
The novelist’s sole work of nonfiction.
Cora Wilburn’s Cosella Wayne.
Longfellow vs. Lazarus.
His reputation will fall and rise with his people’s.
The great theme of his work is resistance to spiritual constraint, the soul’s freedom as the highest value.
Bellow’s whole career as a writer was devoted to this dichotomy, sometimes veering toward one pole, sometimes toward the other, but never losing sight of both.
The Jewish writer who became America’s most decorated novelist spent his early years prodding the nation’s soul. Then, sensing danger to it, he took up the role of guardian.