It All Begins with the Jewish Nose
August 15, 2014 1:37 pm Comments Off on It All Begins with the Jewish NoseYour Face in Mine by Jess Row Riverhead Books, 384 pages, $27.95 Jess Row’s first novel, “Your Face in Mine,”... View Article
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Comedy Isn’t Kosher, But It Can Be Funny
May 20, 2014 1:44 pm Comments Off on Comedy Isn’t Kosher, But It Can Be FunnyA surprising number of people have a professional interest in something they call “kosher comedy.” Now, there’s something compelling about... View Article
Our Naked Desire for ‘Truth’
May 2, 2014 10:12 pm Comments Off on Our Naked Desire for ‘Truth’For the past decade or more, American literary critics have been either celebrating a “memoir boom” or wringing their hands... View Article
A Jew’s Love Letter to the Upper West Side
April 19, 2014 9:49 pm Comments Off on A Jew’s Love Letter to the Upper West Side“Visible City,” by Tova Mirvis Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 256 pages, $24 Tova Mirvis is hardly the first Jewish writer to... View Article
‘Dirty Jews’ and the Christian Right
March 2, 2014 9:59 pm Comments Off on ‘Dirty Jews’ and the Christian RightIn a tidy coincidence, two separate videos went viral last week, demonstrating that American Jews’ love affair with obscenity is... View Article
The Russian (Authors) Are Coming
January 2, 2014 9:57 pm Comments Off on The Russian (Authors) Are ComingOne thing we know for sure is that 2014 will be a big year for young post-Soviet Jews who write... View Article
Potty-Mouthed Queen of the Jews
November 20, 2013 9:51 pm Comments Off on Potty-Mouthed Queen of the JewsIn the first chapter of her 2010 memoir, The Bedwetter—a book as unrelentingly winsome as its author—comedian Sarah Silverman recalls how... View Article
Allen Sherman’s Last Laugh
April 29, 2013 10:19 pm Comments Off on Allen Sherman’s Last LaughIs there any lower form of comedy than song parody? Dirty limericks and knock-knock jokes may be worthless, but at... View Article
Brent Weinbach Is Killing Me
January 9, 2013 3:32 pm Comments Off on Brent Weinbach Is Killing MeIn the first 15 minutes of his third album, Mostly Live, released last year, comedian Brent Weinbach briefly speaks in the... View Article
James Deen vs. the Nebbishes
October 21, 2012 3:29 pm Comments Off on James Deen vs. the NebbishesOne of the constants, to date, in the media coverage of the 26-year-old pornographic performer James Deen — a wave... View Article