by Adam | Saturday 29 January 2011
TNR (or The New Republic), which is just one small letter away from the greatness of TFR, always has compelling work about the world in which we live. Leon Wieseltier writes about how one alarming aspect of the riots in...
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by Adam | Wednesday 26 January 2011
To cleanse the winterly palate, I've been working on some fiction. More bits to come as self-consciousness allows. Moments passed and the couple continued unfazed. Trips up for air replaced the hum of fluid exchanging for other petting noises amid...
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by Adam | Sunday 23 January 2011
Props to writer and TFR-friend Ilana Garon for thrusting this Brian Greene piece on our previously science-secular writing group. Humbling ideas to think on (even if it came from the Times.) If the dark energy doesn’t degrade over time, then...
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by Adam | Thursday 20 January 2011
This is pretty funny. It’s a week before the biggest day of her life, and Anna Williams is multitasking. While waiting to hear back from the Ivy League colleges she’s hoping to attend, the seventeen-year-old senior at one of Manhattan’s...
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by Adam | Sunday 16 January 2011
No, I did not catch Yefim Bronfman playing the formidable Rach 3 in some European concert hall, but I did see him play Brahms No. 2 at the New York Philharmonic this past weekend at Lincoln Center. If I...
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by Adam | Thursday 13 January 2011
This was part of the New York Times overwrought look back at 2010, which sat on my couch under a pile of papers until yesterday. I'm glad I didn't just toss it because Ron Leshem (author of Beauford) wrote this...
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by Adam | Tuesday 11 January 2011
Goldberg on his Atlantic blog continues to make the case that it is in Israel's best interest to not jam themselves too deeply into East Jerusalem. Peace will not come without the birth of a Palestinian state on the West...
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by Adam | Thursday 6 January 2011
Friends, Moment Magazine does great work, I'm proud to have a piece up on the blog for them. Among a number of things, it's about the community of African refugees who flee genocide and resettle in Israel. I hope you...
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by Adam | Monday 3 January 2011
In the spirit of shameless self-promotion, I went to the veritable fountainhead of self-promotion for artists everywhere, my Jewish mother, and had her pick her top ten favorite articles from 2010. Of course, they all ended up being written by...
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by Adam | Saturday 1 January 2011
Another Year Come I have nothing new to ask of you, Future, heaven of the poor. I am still wearing the same things. I am still begging the same question By the same light, Eating the same stone, And the...
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