Crackpot Conspiracy Theory About Anti-Semitic Smurfs Might Not Be So Crackpot

My Father, my uncle, my aunt, a teacher in Hebrew school, and this blogger all…

The Brooklyn Baseball Fiction of “Diamond Ruby”

If you’re a fan of Brooklyn, baseball, and fiction, I’m pretty sure that Diamond Ruby…

The Ira Glass Infatuation Post/This American Life Roundup: “Return to the Scene of the Crime”

Hello again TAL Lovers, This week, Ira takes listeners on an emotional rollercoaster in Return…

Let’s Make Today a Serge Gainsbourg Day

Reports from the Tribeca Film Festival are putting our fears to rest that the Serge…

The Homegrown American Terrorist Fiction Trend

Recently, The Daily Beast called David Goodwillie’s book, American Subversive, "A novel for our times",…

Question of the Day: Will the Fran Drescher Talk Show Suck?

In today’s question of the day, Fran Drescher is geting her own talk show.  Will…

Lev Grossman Hearts Leonard Woolf

Got some time for the Jewish member of the most famous English intellectual circle of…

Win Tickets to a Rooftop Screening of “Holy Rollers” Starring Jesse Eisenberg in NY

Do you want to see Jesse Eisenberg’s forthcoming flick about Hasidic ecstacy dealers on a…