David Mikics

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.

Putting America to the Test

A treasure trove of great American essays, from Cotton Mather to Joan Didion....

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

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....

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AROUND THE WORLD

POLITICS

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....

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RELIGION

HISTORY

The Hedgehog and the Hedgehog: Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher

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