NINETY PERCENT OF EVERYTHING may be crap — as the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon discovered in his famous “revelation” of 1958 — but what sort of crap, exactly? What are its peculiar qualities? Most of the numerous popular ...

PERHAPS NO RELIGION has as much existential uncertainty baked into the product as Judaism. Who, or what, is a Jew? The question remains Jewishness’s most persistent quandary. In modern times, this has not only been a theological or anthropological ...

There is satire here, but Cohen is also crafting a complex argument about the perils of Holocaust writing....