
Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and the Tenets of Progressive Faith
A few nights after I saw Tenet, the new Christopher Nolan movie, the rioters in Portland attacked the Oregon Historical …
A few nights after I saw Tenet, the new Christopher Nolan movie, the rioters in Portland attacked the Oregon Historical …
What I find most intriguing about Steadfast Democrats and, as we will see, why I think it is a book with relevance …
Even in comparison with so many other contributions to American popular culture and entertainment, comic books are an especially Jewish …
How Shakespeare’s fairy king is descended from Judah Maccabee. Read the essay at Mosaic.
The setting for Leigh Bardugo’s acclaimed new fantasy novel ‘Ninth House’ is Yale, and it’s an unintentionally revealing look at …
In a new biography, the critic emerges as an advanced exemplar of a nexus of glamor and moral self-regard. Read …
On the Jewish themes, characters, and subtexts of Guy Gavriel Kay. Read the essay at the Jewish Review of Books.
In the alternate history of The Smoke, Simon Ings maps sci-fi horror onto the Jews. Read the full review at …
On binge-watching and worlds without tradition. Read the full essay at the Jewish Review of Books.
On a summer night in 1949, two men approached the Jordanian soldiers at a military post in the Old City …
For six decades and counting, Peter S. Beagle has written fantasy literature with a Jewish-American sensibility. An overview of his …
Forty years ago, Harold Bloom published his bad fantasy novel The Flight to Lucifer. He claimed it was a product …
Two of the most highly praised novels of 2018, Dara Horn’s Eternal Life and Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, feature a Jewish woman born in …
To answer that question means confronting some hard truths not only about Jewish graphic novels in particular but about graphic …
My picks–a novel, a poem, and a history of American sci-fi–in good company. Read the full list chosen by Mosaic …
My fantasy reading this month included Jewish shape-shifters and “Pharisees,” Michael Moorcock and Rudyard Kipling, and a new Israeli novel …
Sure, all this beats a pogrom. But given that Novik clearly intends the book to work as a commentary on …
And how it compares with a Jewish American anthology. Read the full review at Mosaic.
New books by Maya Arad and Galit Dahan Carlibach portray Israelis making their way as best they can in America …
Tikkun Olam’s easy path to enshrinement as the Jewish truth has depended on the widespread ignorance among millions of Jews …