Deborah Feldman wrote a book about her flight from the Hasidic community. The American publisher called it a memoir. The German publisher called it a novel. A discrepancy I can only attribute to the difference in what passes for truth in America and Germany. One might...
A friend of mine called me about a month ago and said she’d been scrolling through her news feed and had come across something she thought I might find interesting. ”Do you know who the Governor is naming a Brooklyn park after?” She asked. It took me barely a...