Out and About

Image by NANCY CRAMPTON
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Ruth Franklin tells us what we can learn from video footage of Anne Frank.
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Not everyone loves the new HBO show, “Girls.”
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NPR talks to Kazuo Ueda, author of the Yiddish-Japanese dictionary. Read our piece on Ueda and his work here.
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Cynthia Ozick has been shortlisted for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction.
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Jason Diamond riffles through Winston Churchill’s wardrobe at the Paris Review.
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Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Samaritan temple in Israel.
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Watch, and listen to, a soundtrack for “The Golem” created by the Pixies leader Black Francis.
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Welcome to the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, led by The Arty Semite contributor Ajay Singh Chaudhary.