The adventures of an American Jewish novelist.
To the frustration of German test-takers.
Forest Dark is dazzling and promises insight into, among other things, contemporary Israel, but in the end it doesn’t deliver.
The ballebos of the bluegrass.
Distant cousins.
A once-bustling immigrant city.
Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the synagogue on Sabbath afternoons.
Revisiting Cynthia Ozick’s “Innovation and Redemption.”
Like a soufflé, Moonglow is lighter than it looks.
On the novelist’s letters and a “repulsive category.”
As Close to Us as Breathing.
Some thoughts on 20th-century American literature.