Another Place, A Foreign City

Maya Arad’s novel in verse, Another Place, A Foreign City appeared in late 2003 and…

The Hipster Beard: Creepy or Essential?

[Note: The following is an opinion piece on the creepiness of hipster beards, those scraggly…

The Friday 5: Top Alternative Bagel Toppings

Don't get me wrong: a bagel with cream cheese is one of the most perfect…

The Kingdom Breaks Through the (Smoke) Screen

(Welcome, Stumblers!) The Kingdom, still playing in major movie houses, may be the most important…

The Nation Pans “The Israel Lobby”

What a carnival it has been seeing the liberal-left react to the ungenerous reviews of…

Diamond in the Rough

In his new collection, The Family Diamond, Edward Schwarzschild, author of the novel Responsible Men…

Year-Round Cultural Atonement

Whether you’re Orthodox or atheist, you’ve no doubt encountered non-Jewish works of art that resonate…

Music, Moonshine, and Mahjong

Over the past 18 months, I have dedicated my personal life primarily to researching the…