David Mikics is a columnist for Tablet magazine and the author of Bellow's People (Norton) and Slow Reading in a Hurried Age (Harvard/Belknap). He is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Putting America to the Test
A treasure trove of great American essays, from Cotton Mather to Joan Didion....
Israel Versus Israel: On “Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War”
Israel has a hard time talking to Palestine, but an even worse time talking with itself....
What Makes a Jew a Jew: On Steven Weitzman’s “The Origin of the Jews”
David Mikics examines “The Origin of the Jews” by Steven Weitzman....
The Hedgehog and the Hedgehog: Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher
Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher were both refugees from political tyranny, but David Caute analyzes the ideologies that divided these two legends of Cold War politics....
