The New Republic has hired back Franklin Foer as editor. Crown Heights gets a Hasidic art gallery. Could Boris Gelfand become the first Israeli world chess champion? Zackary Sholem Berger explores the Hasidic literary underground. White-collar criminal Andrew G. Bodnar wasn’t just ordered to write a book as part of his sentence, he also considered…
Sacha Baron Cohen is being criticized for presenting negative stereotypes of Arabs in “The Dictator.” Can’t say this one was hard to see coming. Aaron Sorkin has signed on to write the script for a Steve Jobs biopic. Aharon Appelfeld’s “Blooms of Darkness” has won the British Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Read our review of…
Jordan has freed the publisher of an online newspaper charged with propagating “anti-regime sentiment.” Actor Elliott Gould has become the new face of Aish HaTorah. Watch Mandy Patinkin speaking at a Peace Now conference in Jerusalem. Read an excerpt from Isaac Bashevis Singer and Maurice Sendak’s “Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories.” Seth Lipsky defends…
Roman Polanski is set to direct “D,” a thriller about the Dreyfus Affair. Comic book legend Stan Lee is writing an Elvis comic. Listen to a recording from the legendary Yiddish poet, partisan and Shoah song collector Shmerke Kaczerginski. Take a look at the first book illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Walter Zev Feldman takes on…
The New York Freudian Society is attempting to update its image by changing its name to the Contemporary Freudian Society. Listen to the only known recording of Freud speaking. Watch a previously unseen Beastie Boys video from the unaired third season of “Chapelle’s Show.” Director David Cronenberg will take a turn in front of the…
Take a look at a series of photos taken by a young Stanley Kubrick titled “Life and Love on The New York City Subway.” How Herman Göring’s younger brother Albert saved dozens of Jewish lives. Adam Kirsch reflects on a “quasi-novel” about the assassinated Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich. “The Steins Collect,” an exhibit at the…
Writer László Krasznahorkai talks to Guernica magazine about terror in fiction, the aesthetic of the long sentence, his love of contemporary music, and collaborating with Allen Ginsberg. Read our review of his most recent novel here. Tel Aviv-born artist Maira Kalman takes a stroll through her native city. Read our interview with Kalman here. Bob…
Meet Yiddish sensation Libby Pollak. Take a look at a trove of previously unseen old New York City photos. Eight American cities are getting money for new arts journalism initiatives. Step into the weird and wonderful world of women’s arm wrestling. Listen to Habitus editor Joshua Editor reflect on Berlin. Christian Lorenzten expounds on the…
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