Mumbai Attacks Recap

While Americans were doing their Thanksgiving thing and the citizens of the rest of the…

Jewcy Zeitgeist: Pirate Chatter, Robo-AIDS and Hillary Gets a New Job

The news that’s not about dead Indians: President-Elect Obama is expected today to announce the…

Misfire: Todd Hasak-Lowy’s Very, Very Bad First Novel

In 2004, Nicholson Baker, lately celebrated in some quarters for his argument that World War…

Andy Warhol, Gay Marriage, and Accountability

A few weeks ago I went to see the new Andy Warhol exhibit, "Warhol’s Jews,"…

There is No Business Like Shoah Business

Anthony O. "Tony" Scott recently published a thought-provoking essay in the New York Times on…

A Poem by Robert Manaster

The Beginnings of Ritual   When God intrudes from within A story, as in the…

Jewcy Zeitgeist: Zimbabweans Getting Sick, 16th-Century-Style, Drinkin’ Pee in Space and Russia Does As Russia Does

Last one before the news takes a couple of days off so that those who…

Save a Writer–Buy a Book

"It’s a very ugly time in American publishing," my agent wrote to me. I had…