Confronting the Very Real Possibility of a Nuclear Iran
What if the mullahs already have the bomb?
April 2, 2021
Insisting He Wasn’t a Jewish Writer, Philip Roth Couldn’t Stop Writing about the Jews, or Caring What They Thought of Him
A new biography is a “narrative masterwork.”
To Cynthia Ozick, Blake Bailey’s new biography of the late American novelist Philip Roth is “a narrative masterwork both of wholeness and particularity, of crises wedded to character, of character erupting into insight, insight into desire, and desire into destiny.” In her review, Ozick reconsiders the ferocious criticism hurled at Roth from American Jews, scandalized by the publications of such works as Portnoy’s Complaint and “The Conversion of the Jews”—criticism which seemed to sting Roth deeply even as he reveled in it, and made it fodder for future works:
April 2, 2021
The Palestinian Authority Is Making It Harder for the U.S. to Help It
Paying terrorists while shutting down civil society.
The Iron Dome’s Tenth Birthday Is a Cause for Celebration
Even its critics cannot deny that it saves lives.
Insisting He Wasn’t a Jewish Writer, Philip Roth Couldn’t Stop Writing about the Jews, or Caring What They Thought of Him
A new biography is a “narrative masterwork.”
Precious Haggadot, from 12th-Century Cairo to Spain on the Eve of Expulsion
Exploring the world’s largest collection.