The rare writer focused on success rather than dysfunction.

A review of three books.

Does it belong to the Old World or the New?

In which Jewish literature retreats to a niche.

Translating the work of a great Jewish author.

Suicide bombings and peace talks, socialism and its decline, pogroms and the Holocaust.

An newly-unearthed 1988 recording of the famous novelist.

The best-selling Jewish novelist turns one-hundred next week.

Proof how much Bellow matters to our democratic society.

His “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.”

The novelist Dara Horn discusses the use of Jewish tradition and history in her own fiction, the relationship between studying literature and creating it, her. . .

In 1965, Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote and published a story, in Yiddish, about the guilty conscience of a Polish-Jewish Communist. The story was translated into English. . .

A recently published collection of some 700 of Norman Mailer’s letters (selected out of many thousands) suggests that the famed author was the sort of. . .