Jews have long embraced their identity as “the people of the book.” But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Bo
Global literature was hailed by Goethe as long ago as 1827, when he announced, "National literature is now a meaningless term; the epoch of world literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to has
Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America’s preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas s
