Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

“Gorey’s World”

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Broadsheet Coffee Roasters

An antidote to Starbucksification?

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Composed Response

Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice  

by Jennifer McFarl...

Sketch Artist

Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live

by Oset Babür

A Novel Take on Eternal Life

Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

From Here to Timbuktu

A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Stories for Change

Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.

by Sanya Sagar

Henry Chapman Mercer

Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930  

by Nancy Freudenthal

The Low End Theory

Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship

by Jesse McCarthy