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Tablet Streaming Kafka 7 Jun
A new television miniseries, titled Kafka, offers a multifaceted portrayal of Franz Kafka, highlighting various aspects of his life and relationships, blendi...
7 Jun
Tablet What Nellie Saw 23 May
Nellie Bowles' "Morning After the Revolution" discusses the failures and absurdities of progressive movements following George Floyd's killing, critiquing as...
23 May
Tablet God, How We Miss Saul Bellow 5 Apr
Saul Bellow, a celebrated late-20th-century American writer, is being overlooked in universities due to views of being out-of-date and conservative. However,...
5 Apr
Tablet Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Tantalizing, Unsentimental Prophet, Is Miles More American Than Maya Angelou 28 Feb
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a significant American thinker, is portrayed as a challenging and thought-provoking figure in James Marcus' new biography. Emerson's ess...
28 Feb
Tablet Harvard’s Derek Penslar Helps Make the World Safer for Antisemitism 31 Jan
Harvard University appointed Derek Penslar, a professor of Jewish history, as co-chair of its Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism. However, the...
31 Jan
Tablet More ‘Anti-Zionist’ Insanity Your Kid Will Learn at NYU 9 Jan
The article criticizes NYU professor Sonali Thakkar and her book "The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought"...
9 Jan
Tablet The Last Jewish Intellectuals 27 Nov 2023
Maestros & Monsters: Days and Nights with Susan Sontag and George Steiner is a new book by Robert Boyers that explores his friendships with these Jewish inte...
27 Nov 2023
Tablet The Hollow Men 19 Oct 2023
The article discusses the film "Carlos," a biopic about the terrorist Carlos the Jackal. The film portrays Carlos as a hollow and empty individual driven by ...
19 Oct 2023
Tablet Norman Manea’s Exiled Shadow 19 Sep 2023
In "Exiled Shadow," an autobiographical novel by Norman Manea, the author tells his own story as a Romanian Jew who survived a concentration camp in Transnis...
19 Sep 2023
Tablet The Ambivalent Destroyer 26 Jul 2023
The article discusses the movie "Oppenheimer," directed by Christopher Nolan, which focuses on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bo...
26 Jul 2023