On Innocence, Forgetfulness, and Reading in Kafka’s “Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared”

Chained To This Spot: On Kafka’s Hesitation, Unhappiness, and the Possibility of Writing

I Am (Not) Different From the Rest of My Species: On Kafka’s Almost-Melancholic- Dog

Unsatisfied With “Myself” & the Conclusion: Kafka on Weariness, Faith, and Eternity

Nothing to Laugh About: On Jean Amery’s Phenomenology of Aging and Louis CK’s

Looking for Optimism, Finding Pessimism: On Salon’s Recent Interview of Slavoj Zizek and his Turn to Harsh Realism

Do I Know You? I Can’t Remember: Zizek on Autism, Alzheimers, Psychosis and Post-Traumatic Birth

Gastronomic Blasphemy: Yom Kippur on Broad City and Yidlife Crisis

Failure, Theft, Schlemiels, and Millennials: On Noah Baumbach’s “Mistress America”

The Memory of Death, Comedy & Humanity: Herzog’s Encounter with Suffering & his Mother’s Death

Saul Bellow’s Literary Question: What Happens When a Schlemiel Nearly Dies While-Watching-A-Trial?

A Schlemiel With a Russian Revolver

A Schlemiel With a Russian Revolver

Somewhere Between Trauma, Trust, and Comedy

A Schlemiel With a Russian Revolver: On the Un-Heroic Conduct of Saul Bellow’s Herzog – Part I

On Harsh Realism, Ethical Hope, and the Meaning(s) of Jewishness in Saul Bellow’s Herzog

Saul Bellow’s Herzog on “Downward Transcendence” and the “Humiliating Comedy of Heartache”

Lena Dunham and the Three J’s: Jokes, Jewishness, and Jewish Literacy

Lena Dunham’s Old/New Schlemiel Humor and the Caricature of the Jewish Male

On Cynthia Ozick’s Denunciation of Henry Bech: John Updike’s Literary Portrayal of the Jew as Schlemiel

Robert Walser and Karl Marx Walk Into a Library