Bread Givers

Originally published by Jewish Ideas Daily in May 2010. Revised and expanded. Books for women have been a distinct and popular variety of J...

The Fugitive

Originally published by Jewish Ideas Daily in May 2010. Revised and expanded. Popular Jewish fiction in America began to absorb other Jewis...

Other Things Being Equal

Originally published by Jewish Ideas Daily in May 2010. Revised and expanded. When was American Jewish fiction born? The credit usually goe...

The Rise of David Levinsky

Originally published by Jewish Ideas Daily in May 2010. Revised and expanded. In American literature, Leslie Fiedler once quipped, nothing ...

On being irradiated

Yesterday I started my second round of cancer radiation—a “palliative” treatment, in this case, to relieve the pain in my right hip. Zell Mi...

Truth belongs to love alone

The “religious-seeking novel,” as Ruth Franklin calls it, has been making a splash recently. Roland Merullo’s The Talk-Funny Girl , William...

“He looks mysterious to me”

A quick in-and-out visit to Houston yesterday to see my oncologist. Dr. Garrett R. Lynch has been treating me for nearly five years now, eve...