Adam Mansbach is, and possibly always will be, best known as the “Go the Fuck to Sleep” guy. But he is a more protean and prolific — and profoundly Jewish — writer than people may know.
The new season begins with the same question at the center of the season 1 finale: Is Burd a “culture vulture,” someone guilty of cultural appropriation?
On Aug. 3, @michaelchabon tweeted the following to his 16,000 followers: “Remember carob? What was that all about?”
Aaron Alpert, an American Jew from Los Angeles, and Latishya Steele, an African American non-Jew from Brooklyn, make a perhaps unlikely Israeli folk dance teaching duo. Neither is Israeli or speaks Hebrew. But both are extremely passionate about Israeli dance.
Through meticulous research, including interviews with Roth’s confidants, former flames and enemies, Blake Bailey reveals a fiercely ambitious, funny and obsessive man who put his commitment to “words, words, words” — one of his mantras — above everything and everyone else.