Essayist Phillip Lopate ponders “Scribble, Scribble, Scribble” a new miscellany by historian Simon Schama.
Has Paul Simon been getting the attention he deserves?
The Canadian Jewish News profiles former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler.
Two synagogue restoration projects in Poland have won awards, one of them for “façade of the year.”
Bryna Wasserman, artistic director of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal, is leaving that post to become the executive director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in New York.
The winners of the Canadian Jewish Book Awards have been announced.
Electric literature makes a video to go with a single sentence by New Yorker writer Ben Greenman.
HEEB editor-in-chief Erin Hershberg tells us how much she cares.
Ephemeral New York posts a few of Saul Leiter’s haunting street photographs.
Composer Peter Lieberson and Phoebe Snow, singer of “Poetry Man” and numerous commercial jingles, have died.
Out and About: Phillip Lopate on Simon Schama; New Director for the Folksbiene
