Foreign Bodies

My review of Cynthia Ozick’s new novel Foreign Bodies is on the front page of Jewish Ideas Daily this morning. In her latest book, Ozick ...

Bellow’s letters

Saul Bellow, Letters , ed. Benjamin Taylor (New York: Viking, 2010). 571 pp. $35.00. Not many more collections of letters written by America...

Veterans’ Day

Today is Veterans’ Day, a day of gratitude and remembrance that should not go unremarked. Last year I examined veterans’ novels; no need to...

Cancer reading

In a comment to my reflections on cancer etiquette, Don asks what reading I found helpful in going through the experience of life-threateni...

Cancer etiquette

In the December issue of Vanity Fair , Christopher Hitchens takes up the difficult and perplexing question of what to say to someone who ha...