GRAPHIC CONVERSATION
Rabbi Harvey Interviews Ilan Stavans
BY STEVE SHEINKIN
Harvey travels down to Mexico… and gets a tour (and a terrific lecture) from Stavans.

QUICKMUSE
Moody Thoughts on Bob Dylan and Cher
BY RICK MOODY
What do Dylan and Cher have in common? More than you might think.

QUICKMUSE
The Jerk
BY DAVID LEHMAN
The Jerk shares his mask with the Jokerman.

INTERVIEW
Hardly Sick of Love: Some Questions About Dylan
BY STEPHEN HAZAN ARNOFF

Greil Marcus & Co. talk about the Great Man.

ESSAY
What Kind of Love Is This?: Bob Dylan, Max Weber, and the Song of Songs
BY STEPHEN HAZAN ARNOFF
Putting "Tears of Rage" into context.

THE JEWISH MANUSCRIPT PROEJCT
Poem in the Prophetic Manner
By DAVID LEHMAN
Lehman's scribbles revise and transform themselves into a published poem.

GRAPHIC CONVERSATION
Rabbi Harvey Interviews Gary Shteyngart
BY STEVE SHEINKIN
Shteyngart and the cartoon clergyman talk it out on a park bench.

PODCAST
Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle in Conversation
The late Harvey Pekar discusses Studs Terkel, and his own secular Jewish identity, with cultural historian Paul Buhle.

QUICKMUSE
oh freedom
BY ELISA ALBERT
An improvised epistle to freedom.

QUICKMUSE
The Cloudstack or the Pillar of Fire
BY JONATHAN WILSON
The acclaimed novelist's poem on "the long, long journey/up the desert's spine."

QUICKMUSE
The Prophet Sara
BY DARA HORN
Opening the door for Elijah… and finding yourself.

ESSAY
iPhoning It In
BY KEN GORDON
Can you conduct a real seder on a smart phone? Or will such sederim get people tweeting things like "Manischewitz = the wine of affliction"?

ESSAY
Not a Guide, but an Example: Paradoxes of Spiritual Writing
BY JAY MICHAELSON
Wrestling with the idea of spiritual writing.

ESSAY
From One Generation to the Next
BY RABBI LAWRENCE KUSHNER
Kushner looks at Abraham the idol-smasher.

ESSAY
Taste It and You Will See That God Is Good
BY RABBI DANYA RUTTENBERG
Ruttenberg has a few words for Michaelson about "religion" and "spirituality."

SHORT STORY
Alice Apologizes
BY ELINOR LIPMAN
An ocean-side lesson in Peoplehood.

SHORT STORY
Song at the Sea
BY DARA HORN
No vanquished Egyptians here—just a mom, her son, and some waves.

SHORT STORY
Mr. Pacific Beach
BY NEAL POLLACK
Grampa was not the Jewish Charles Atlas. Or maybe he was.

SHORT STORY
Jews at the Beach
BY DANIT BROWN
What's the safe thing to do on the sand?

INTERVIEW
Speaking of Exile
BY KEN GORDON
A chat with the edifying and entertaining Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi.

FICTION
The Crumbs of Companionship
BY RACHEL SOMERSTEIN
How The Confessions of Noa Weber transcends the Chick Lit genre.

INTERVIEW
The Kindly Ones in America
BY BENJAMIN POLLACK
Jonathan Littell's translator has a few words for the critics.

NON-FICTION
Words and Deeds. And Needs.
BY DAVID COHEN
When social action met Jewish texts...

ESSAY
Homelessness and Displacement: Jerusalem, America, and Beyond
BY RABBI JILL JACOBS
Some serious thinking about displaced persons.

ESSAY
First Diasporist Manifesto
By R. B. KITAJ
Kitaj's manifesto is smart, funny, provocative, and literate. Amazing prose by a truly great artist.

FICTION
The Very Latest in Biblical Shtick
BY TAMARA MANN
Is it a good idea to make light of the Bible?

NON-FICTION
Zornberg Goes Deep
BY RABBI JILL HAMMER
Putting the Torah on the couch.

NON-FICTION
Shmuley Tries to Spice it Up. Again.
BY DAVE GORDON
Shmuley Boteach talks about The Kosher Sutra.

ESSAY
For the Love of God: Personal, Political, Paradoxical
BY ALICIA OSTRIKER
A major American poet's Bible.

ESSAY
The Motive for Translating Psalms
BY ROBERT ALTER
Some wise words on the music of translation.

FICTION
A Sustained Belief in the Unbelievable
By RACHEL SOMERSTEIN
Amos Oz's latest novel puts the writing process on display.

ESSAY
The Peculiar Case of Hebrew Literature in America
BY YARON PELEG
What's missing in translation.

FICTION
Appelfeld's Metaphoric Return
By BEZALEL STERN
Is Laish too allegorical for its own good?

ESSAY
Lowdermilk Makes the Case
By ALLIS AND RONALD RADOSH
How a bestselling book by a New Deal soil conservationist aided the Zionist cause.

ESSAY
TheHazards of Making The Case for Israel 
By ALAN DERSHOWTIZ
A classic JBooks essay from Dershowitz.

AUDIO
Helping Isaac Survive
Steve Zipperstein says some fascinating things about Isaac Rosenfeld.

NON-FICTION
The Incomplete Rosenfeld
By DONALD WEBER
A very close look the new Rosenfeld biography.

FICTION
Rabbi Harvey Reviews...
By STEVE SHEINKIN
Our cartoon clergyman on The Book of the Unknown.

ESSAY
Not Your Father's Fiction Guide
By SANFORD PINSKER
Reference books don't have to be as dry as dust.

ESSAY
Lost Classics on the Cheap
By JOSH LAMBERT
Want to learn about some great but unfairly overlooked books? Step right up!

FICTION
Bukiet's Other Side
By ANDREW FURMAN
Furman looks back at a formative text.

Jewish book news and reviews from around the web.

Feiffer, furious

Thinking with and against

An Italian Pipik

Shulevitz's divided fascination