Starting with the June 2025 issue, which features a single, staggering 20,000-word essay by journalist Adam Kirsch entitled “The Z Word,” readers in the United States and Canada will be introduced to ...

This ideology accuses countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, and Israel of an ongoing genocide. The adherents had to perform some intellectual contortions and prevarications to make that ...

Although literary critic Adam Kirsch insists in his introduction to the text that “those readers [of Yiddish novels] are all but gone, along with the writers who addressed them,” the YIVO ...

The theme of the novel, as Adam Kirsch suggests in his introduction, seems to be the perennial clash between religious parents and their sometimes rebellious offspring, a fixture of Yiddish ...

Judges: Peter Filkins, Roger Kimball & Adam Kirsch. The winner will receive $3,000 and the winning manuscript will be published in the winter of 2026. Contestants can submit their entries here. An ...

is “quite probably the last great Yiddish novel,” the critic Adam Kirsch writes in an introduction. Dwight Garner, in a New York Times review, calls it “a melancholy book that also happens ...

Grade’s full archive only opened when Inna died in 2010. “Sons and Daughters,” which the critic Adam Kirsch in an introduction calls “the last great Yiddish novel,” was written in the 1960s and 1970s ...

please read “On Settler Colonialism” by Adam Kirsch) as well as their destruction of property, but I disapprove even more of the current administration’s attempts to silence dissent by these ...

In the introduction to Sons and Daughters, Adam Kirsch calls it “probably the last great Yiddish novel.” In all likelihood, he’s right, but I like to think that a vibrant Yiddish literary ...

Literary critic Adam Kirsch observed that while other civilizations built their memory into stone, the Jewish people built it into books. For a people often displaced, books became portable ...

Reviewing a compendium of her letters (another piece on which I covered previously), Adam Kirsch writes of the confounding paradox at the heart of Weil’s thought: despite the harmony between her most ...