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    on writing

    Essay—From the Journal

    The Silent Toil­ers Are No Longer Silent

    Alex­is Landau
    March 15, 2021
    Essay

    Poet­ry = Life

    Lesléa New­man
    March 8, 2021
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    The Bless­ing and the Curse: The Jew­ish Peo­ple and Their Books in the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Adam Kirsch
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    Fic­tion
    Moth­er for Dinner
    Shalom Aus­lan­der
    Essay

    Salinger and the Art of ​“Jew­ish Zen”

    Jerome Charyn
    January 4, 2021
    Fiction—From the Journal

    The Lit­tle Bottles

    Weaver
    December 14, 2020
    Essay

    How To Write Detec­tive Novels 

    Jonathan Dun­sky
    December 11, 2020
    Excerpt

    Excerpt — The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement 

    Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman, Sim­cha Fishbane
    November 23, 2020
    Essay

    Like­ly Morningstar

    Melanie Con­roy-Gold­man
    October 26, 2020
    Essay—From the Journal

    Mag­ic, Mem­o­ry, and Mass Mur­der: New Shtetl Lit­er­a­ture and the Long Back­shad­ow of Genocide

    Moriel Roth­man-Zech­er
    October 13, 2020
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    Jack Kir­by: The Epic Life of the King of Comics
    Tom Sci­oli
    Essay

    Yosemite Burn­ing

    Ora Yashar
    September 23, 2020
    Essay

    Act of God

    Alex Kress
    September 23, 2020
    Essay

    Glow Shrimp

    Mari­na Weiner
    September 23, 2020
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    Here We Are: My Friend­ship with Philip Roth
    Ben­jamin Taylor
    Essay

    Jew­ish Sci­ence Fiction

    Phil M. Cohen
    September 7, 2020
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