Out and About

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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Jason Diamond writes for The New York Times about the curse of having once been a barista.
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R. Crumb and Will Eisner are among 130 illustrators creating a three-volume graphic novel version of the western canon.
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The latest short story by Robert Walser in the New York Review of Books describes the author’s favorite Berlin bar.
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The Arty Semite contributor Jillian Steinhauer offers 127 reasons why we’re fascinated by lists.
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Former Hasid Deborah Feldman gives a tell-all interview to the New York Post. Read the Forward’s review of her book here.
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There’s a new round of Leonard Cohen tributes to celebrate the release of his latest album. Now this is something I can get behind.
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New York has every kind of tour, including a Jewish gangsters tour.
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Every wonder about the Welsh Jews? You can learn all about them in a new film series, “Jewish Tales from Wales.”
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Shalom Auslander will present Moment Magazine’s Memoir Awards on Sunday at Chicago’s Spertus Institute.
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Francine Prose writes in the Globe and Mail about why Anne Frank will always be with us.
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First there was The New Yorker Book Club; now there’s the New York Review of Books book club.
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