My review of Sandra Fox's The Jews of Summer was selected as an editors' pick in the magazine Mosaic.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939; Penguin, 2002) Years ago I read Of Mice and Men and East of Eden . I’m reminded why I loved them. Steinbeck is like Shakespeare: every character in The Grapes of Wrath is fully realized. Even the ones you hate, you understand. Steinbeck is also like Tolstoy. He makes history—big, lumbering, impersonal forces—come to life. The Dust Bowl and the landowners and the migrants they sent tumbling west all emerge in vivid, harsh detail. T

My article "Under the Sign of the Middle Passage" appears as the lead piece in the Summer 2023 issue of TSLL.

#whatireadovershabbat Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus: The Life of German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend (trans. H. T....

My review of Sandra Fox's new history of Jewish summer camp, The Jews of Summer, appears in the summer issue of the Jewish Review of Books.

#whatireadovershabbat Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast “This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very...