Baseball novels from top to bottom

The Hardball Cooperative, a blog written by ten fans and students of the game, hosts a symposium on the best and worst baseball novels of a...

On style

Patrick Kurp closes a typically fine discussion of the Anglo-Russian novelist William Gerhardie by quoting him on style: A writer’s style i...

The Passionate Torah

Danya Ruttenberg, ed., The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism (New York: New York University Press, 2009). 320 pp. $19.95. Postmodernism, fe...

Choice and being chosen

I have written my last word on hipster Jews—for now. The criticism that my view of choice and being chosen is “static,” though, continues to...

The search for Jewish answers

Hipster Judaism is not the first Jewish youth movement to seek the reinvention of Jewish culture. Perhaps the examination of an earlier “inn...

Such Jews are not hipsters

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is a nearly century-old institution of Jewish life in America. Although it is a news service, describing itsel...

Five Books of the American Revolution

Independence Day is Saturday, when I am otherwise occupied. Here, then, two days early—in order to give you time to read them before Saturda...