Benjamin Pollak
By Benjamin Pollak
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Culture American Eccentrics
Homer and Langley Collyer became reluctant celebrities in the late 1930s when their decaying Harlem mansion began to attract the attention of neighbors and the press. Scions of an old New York family, the Collyer brothers had lived alone in the four-story brownstone since their mother’s death in the late ‘20s, leaving their home less…
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Culture Holy Scriptures Batman! Bible as Comedy
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible! By Jonathan Goldstein Riverhead Books, 256 pages, $15.00. We all know the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Noah and his ark, but not quite the way Jonathan Goldstein tells them in “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!” In his latest book, a collection of stories, Goldstein revisits…
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