#whatireadovershabbat Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik’s Droshes un ksovim Yiddish has become very fashionable. I should know, I studied it for...

#whatireadovershabbat Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (1989; Everyman's Library, 2012) An aging butler goes for a trip in the...

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

#whatireadovershabbat John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath Years ago I read Of Mice and Men and East of Eden. I’m reminded why I loved...

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...

#whatireadovershabbat Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden I know a lot of people read The Secret Garden growing up. Not me. I...