Negotiations with Iran Are Reaching the Point of No Return
There will be no "tearing up the treaty" later.
May 8, 2015
Moral Tourism: Bad Poetry after Auschwitz
The Death’s Head Chess Club and other novels of Holocaust kitsch.
Martin Amis, Elie Wiesel, Avraham Sutzkever, and others have managed to write literature about the Holocaust, arguably in a way that does justice to its horrors. But the Holocaust has also become the subject of much bad fiction. Adam Kirsch reviews a recent example, The Death’s Head Chess Club, which focuses on the relationship between a somewhat benign SS officer and a Jewish inmate at Auschwitz, and their reunion in Amsterdam two decades later:
May 8, 2015
Moral Tourism: Bad Poetry after Auschwitz
The Death’s Head Chess Club and other novels of Holocaust kitsch.
Unaffiliated Does Not Mean Irreligious
Interpreting a new Pew study about American religion.
Allowed but Unwelcome: the Jews of Jordan
How Jewish students and aid workers hide their Jewishness.
What Did the Ten Commandments Look Like? And How Were They Arranged?
Tablets with curved tops? Rectangles? Two sides of the same stone?