While war raged in Europe, Canadian Jews hoped to save their brethern with quiet diplomacy. It didn’t work.

Live from the countryside: RICKY and RUDY have a GRUDGE! W. is LOST IN THE LAKE! Plus: REVENGE of the RIVER OTTERS!

The mob again, and again, and again...

One Thousand Days in the Diaspora, a mini-memoir

One Thousand Days in the Diaspora, a Mini-Memoir

One Thousand Days in the Diaspora, a Mini-Memoir

The Messethetics...The Lost World of Indie...Fugazi and Dischord....I Dream of Broken Pencils....

While Austria's Jews are under seige by the NAZIs, Freud works feverishly to complete a final work reinventing Moses as an Egyptian prince.

A teapot tempest in Toronto reveals the intolerance at the heart of Canadian culture

Unpacking the Rise of Destructive Gaza-Left Activism After Bondi and Before It’s Too Late

Friends, I’ve written a missive in The Hub.

My parents celebrate their 59th wedding anniversary with memories of an iconic first date

A short sampler of my much longer essay on the rise and fall of the zine

The zine community was a haven for all types of free-thinking artists, misfits, and heretics—until online mobs turned it into just another bastion of social-justice groupthink.

The zine community was a haven for all types of free-thinking artists, misfits, and heretics—until online mobs turned it into just another bastion of social-justice groupthink.

A book, a climb, the road back home

a Mid-Summer Sojourn

The Battle Against ‘Whiteness’ Has Not Yet Been Won!

Zadie recovers, Hal goes North, E. hunts for frogs....

One long night with Chava Rosenfarb, Paul Celan, Karl Ove Knausgaard and, of course, young Adolf Hitler....