In the same vein, Ralph Melnick, in his article “Our Own Deeper Joy, Spiritual Resistance after the Holocaust,” testifies how thousands of women in Auschwitz defiantly sang Maoz Tzur on Chanukah, ...

On Halloween night, 1968, a flock of twenty eminent New Yorkers burst out of the door of Stephen Sondheim’s Turtle Bay town house. The group included the Broadway producer Harold Prince, the ...

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

The English writer Dorothy L. Sayers, for example, explores that idea in "The Mind of the Maker," and a recent favorite of ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

It is a great example of aphoristic intelligence at work. It makes us reconsider what we’re doing, or not doing, with our ...