A Year to Forget
Drop 2020, and live in a year worth remembering
By the Content of Its Characters
On rereading “War and Peace” in the age of radical sensitivity
Wonder Bread
Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft
One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet
A Manhattan writer runs afoul of the local penal system and lives to tell the tale
Custom and Law
After the death of his father, a not-notably observant Jew turns to the mourning rituals of his faith
