Does the Jew Exist? by Albert Memmi Toward the end of my adolescence I had had enough of being a Jew; or so I dared tell myself.…
An End to Pornography? by Dan Jacobson The image of humankind which pornography presents to its readers is that of a sad, ape-like creature trapped forever behind…
Between the Lines, by Dan Wakefield by Joseph Epstein Macaulay once estimated the lifespan of his essays, articles, and reviews--what today would be called his "pieces"--to be at most…
Does the Jew Exist? by Albert Memmi Toward the end of my adolescence I had had enough of being a Jew; or so I dared tell myself.…
From a Composer’s Journal by Ned Rorem The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of. Art…
Hebrew Poems from Spain: Introduction, Translation, and Notes by David Goldstein by David Daiches The flowering of Hebrew poetry in Spain in the two centuries between 1000 and 1200 C.E. is a perpetual challenge…
Jews and Germans by Gershom Scholem To speak of Jews and Germans and their relations during the last two centuries is, in the year 1966, a…
Koufax the Incomparable by Mordecai Richler Within many a once-promising, now suddenly command-generation Jewish writer, there is a major league ball player waiting to leap out.…
Tensions and Conservatism in American Politics by Oscar Gass During this third year of Lyndon Johnson's Presidency, the United States has continued to grow richer in goods and stronger…
The Age of Keynes, by Robert Lekachman by Andrew Shonfield It is quite a long time now since Keynes became firmly established as economic orthodoxy in Britain and the United…
The Empty Society by Paul Goodman During Eisenhower's second administration, I wrote a book describing how hard it was for young people to grow up in…
The Knower and the Known, by Marjorie Grene by Maurice Natanson Although the conceptual split between the knower and the known is an ancient philosophical problem, in its most pressing modern…
The Vacancies of August by John Thompson By November, Of course, it will all be as old as a snapshot. Arriving on that Greek island, I know…
