A Tale of Five Blinkens by Ruth R. Wisse From a Yiddish writer to a secretary of state in four generations—and what it means
The Exuberant Joylessness of Philip Roth by Ruth R. Wisse The brilliant and problematic work of a Jewish writer who didn’t want to be one
The Enduring Outrage of Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ by Ruth R. Wisse Fifty-five years later, her book still has the power to shock—and disgust
Saul Bellow the Rain King by Ruth R. Wisse A biography explores the novelist as son, father, and Jew.
Notes Toward an Israeli Jewish Culture by Ruth R. Wisse Tending the buds of a new civic and religious understanding.
The Anti-Semite’s Pointed Finger by Ruth R. Wisse How Jews have been tricked into believing they can cure the hatred of them when the hatred has always existed…
