Articles

This is truly, madly out of date. Will be refreshing with articles from, oh, the past two years, in The New Republic and The New York Times, very shortly.

From The New Republic

How Older Parenthood Will Upend American Society

From Tablet:

Following the Breadcrumbs

Platonic Form

About the Sabbath:

The Meaning of the Sabbath,” The Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2010

Remember the Sabbath?The Washington Post, April 16, 2010.

Remember the Sabbath,” Forward, March 31, 2010.

The View from Saturday,” Slate, July 29, 2005.

“Bring Back the Sabbath,”  The New York Times, March 2, 2003.

The Orthodox Jew and the Vice-Presidency,” Slate, March 29, 2000.

About everything else (the past year and a half only):

Samuel Clemens’ Secret: What Mark Twain’s Autobiography Doesn’t Reveal,” Slate, November 23, 2010

Ann Beattie, Distilling Her Generation,” The New York Times Book Review, November 19, 2010

Beyond the Milon,” Jewish Forward, November 17, 2010

Downtime: On the Overcontrolling Parent,” The New Republic, Sept. 22, 2010.

The Tolstoy of the Internet: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom is an epic map of our imprisonment,” Slate, August 30, 2010 

American Sublime: The Catskills You Don’t Know,” The New Republic, August 28, 2010

Easy Rider: My Revolutionary Folding Bike,” The New Republic, June 16, 2010

The Other White Powder: Is Salt So Different From Crack?,” The New Republic, June 2, 2010

Roots and Branches,” The New Republic, April 2, 2010

Platonic Form: What makes the seder night different? Its Greek roots,” Tablet, March 25, 2010.

In Search of the Real: Where is Don DeLillo’s quest taking him?Slate, Feb. 7, 2010. 

The God Gene,” New York Times Book Review, Dec. 27, 2009.

My True Story,” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 20, 2009.

Stage Fright: How to Read Philip Roth’s Quartet on Aging,” Slate, Nov. 16, 2009.

Was Paul a Jew? A new generation of scholars argues that the apostle long considered the progenitor of anti-Semitism never left his religion,” Tablet, Nov. 11, 2009. 

The Encumbrance of Things Past: The Mystery of William Trevor’s Nostalgia,” Slate, Sept. 21, 2009. 

A Very American Malignancy: Maile Meloy is an expert on having it both ways,” Slate, July 27, 2009 

Motherhood Changes You,” Double X, May 12, 2009. 

Why Write While Israel Burns? Amoz Oz’s Entrancing Paranoia,” Slate, April 6, 2009.