A Poet at the Plate
By MATTHEW ZAPRUDER
A close reading of the seder plate.

A Poet's Novel
By PHILIP LOPATE
Lopate's superb essay on Charles Reznikoff'.

Jewish Poetry?
By JOY KATZ
Is your favorite Jewish poet Wise or Wicked? Joy Katz will tell you.

All Who Are Hungry
By RACHEL BARENBLAT
The Velveteen Rabbi muses on Pesach and National Poetry Month.

Fathers and Son
By ELLIS WEINER
Anyone for a little dying-literary-generation shtick?

High-Ranking Lawyer
By BEN BIRNBAUM
Franz Kafka's memo masterpieces.

Orthodox and Undercover
By MATTHUE ROTH
Young Mr. Roth runs wild.

The Spiel
Robert Pinsky sings the praises of JBooks.com. Literally.

The Comedy Writers' Holiday
By ROB KUTNER
The Daily Show scribe muses on our most hilarious chag.

Eine Kleine Post-Purim Spiel
By ALICIA OSTRIKER
A dramatic scene from the mind of a major poet.
 

Surveying the Spiel
By JOAN LEEGANT
One novelist gets playful with Purim.

Right on the Money
By DARA HORN
Looking at Tevye in the light of L'Affaire Madoff.

Giving Jewish Books the Business
By RACHEL SOMERSTEIN
A veteran bookseller talks about his embattled industry.

The Jewishness of Jews Without Money 
By PAUL BUHLE
Buhle revisits Mike Gold's classic.

Jewish Women as Industrious Earners
By ALLISON SCHACHTER
Glückel of Hameln brings home the bacon (so to speak).

Translator, Commentator, Writer
By MICHAEL CARASIK
What do Edith Grossman and Rashi have in common? More than you might imagine.

On Being a Marginally Jewish Reader
By KEN GORDON
Taking a page from Sh'ma.

ESSAY
Writing His Way into History
By ADAM KIRSCH
The challenge of saying something new about Benjamin Disraeli.

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