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Literature

The Hope and Humor of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Early Essays

A timely review of Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939–1945

November 1, 2023 • by Helen Schulman

Helen Schulman's review explores Bashevis Singer's "Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945." The piece highlights Singer's poignant essays, written during World War II, offering a glimpse into his reactions to Nazi atrocities and the erosion of Yiddish culture, and drawing connections to the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...

The Hope and Humor of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Early Essays

Literature

Avu Iz Mayn Shmok

An excerpt from Adam Mansbach’s hilarious new novel, The Golem of Brooklyn

November 1, 2023 • by Adam Mansbach

An excerpt from Adam Mansbach's new novel, "The Golem of Brooklyn," a hilarious take on an ancient Jewish folkloric tale....

Literature

First He Parks the Golem In Front of a Television

A conversation with Adam Mansbach about his latest novel, The Golem of Brooklyn

November 1, 2023 • by Adam Mansbach and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

In a recent conversation at The New School, history professor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela chatted with writer Adam Mansbach about his new novel, The Golem of Brooklyn (One World, 2023), in which ancient Jewish folklore meets contemporary Brooklyn....

First He Parks the Golem In Front of a Television

Art & Design

Patience, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

November 1, 2023 • by Social Research

The Fall 2023 issue of Social Research explores the meaning of patience, offers new insights into suffering, forbearance, divine authority, human queueing behavior, delayed gratification, savings behavior, and more....

Patience, the New Issue of Social Research

Art & Design

A Conversation with David Gissen about The Architecture of Disability

Rethinking a city from a disability perspective goes beyond installing curb cuts

October 25, 2023 • by Bella Okuya and David Gissen

In his latest book, Parsons Professor David Gissen presents a new take on the discussion of architecture and disability....

A Conversation with David Gissen about The Architecture of Disability

The Arts

Hope and Despair in the American Socialist Movements of the 1930s

Art for the Millions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

October 2, 2023 • by Mitchell Abidor

The MET's new exhibition, "Art for the Millions" shows the various ways that artists and left-wing organizations reacted to and inflected the social and political movements of the time. ...

Hope and Despair in the American Socialist Movements of the 1930s

Film & Performing Arts

Dark Matter: Oppenheimer’s American Sublime

Christopher Nolan limns the limits of what cinema can reveal

September 19, 2023 • by Jacob Walters

Nolan’s version of Oppenheimer fits right in: an aloof scientist tormented by the majesty of the unseen. ...

Dark Matter: Oppenheimer’s American Sublime

Film & Performing Arts

An Overlooked Film Gem from Malta

Why Luzzu represents more than simply one man’s struggle to fish

September 7, 2023 • by Stella Crouch

Luzzu gives viewers a chance to learn about Maltese culture and language through a compelling story. When Luzzu was released in Malta, audiences felt joy at watching a film in their language, starring actual Maltese people. ...

Literature

How We Became/Become: Latinidad, Identity, and Love

PEN America World Voices Festival authors discuss how writing helps us understand ourselves

September 6, 2023 • by Eloisa Amezcua, María Fernanda Ampuero, José Olivarez and Javier Zamora

Poet Eloisa Amezcua, Zamora, Olivarez, and Ampuero explore how writing helps us grasp our identity, our sociopolitical context, and provokes deeper conversations about love....

How We Became/Become: Latinidad, Identity, and Love

Literature

Matters of Offense

A PEN America World Voices Festival conversation on free speech, appropriation, and what it takes to be an artist

September 5, 2023 • by Ayad Akhtar and Eboo Patel

In an intimate dialogue, the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, novelist, and President of PEN America Ayad Akhtar (Homeland Elegies) and Interfaith America Founder and President Eboo Patel (We Need to Build) explore the climate of self-censorship facing writers, question whether marginalization is a useful category in art, and discuss the dangers of ...

Feminism

The Barbie Curse

Can a girl’s first icon of can-do power ever be good enough?

August 30, 2023 • by Honor McConnell

Barbie is the most popular doll in the world, and the most hated....

Reviews

Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?

How obscuring the public side of public-private partnerships from FDR to Clinton rendered the liberal state politically precarious

June 27, 2023 • by Henry Tonks

The DLC, soon to anoint Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas as their chairman and presidential standard-bearer, were leaving the legacy of New Deal and postwar liberalism behind. They were, after all, “New Democrats.” Or were they? ...