Web Essays
Bad Jew
Reckoning with a heritage as painfully distant as it is impossible to lose
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Thursday, September 22, 2022
The Changing of the Guard
This year’s US Open showed the world that tennis’s next generation is here
by Eric Wills | Thursday, September 15, 2022
The Allure of the Enigmatic
“Mod” London takes center stage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s mind-blowing Blow-Up
by David Lehman | Thursday, August 25, 2022
The Affair Rekindled
Remembering the plight of Dreyfus and the effect it had on a young Marcel Proust
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, August 11, 2022
The Disappearing Modernists
Where did it all go wrong for so much music of the 20th century?
by Mark N. Grant | Thursday, August 04, 2022
Our Remedy
Quack Covid cures and New Age elixirs are just a 21st-century spin on 19th-century patent medicines
by Colin Dickey | Thursday, July 07, 2022
Once Upon Another Fraught Time …
The power of Yiddish children’s literature
by David Stromberg | Thursday, June 02, 2022
The Dinner Party
Certain things shouldn’t be brought up at the dinner table, but in our fraught time, that’s nearly impossible
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Thursday, May 26, 2022
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