For years, Roth couldn’t get beyond the premise for his novel “American Pastoral.” Then he stumbled on a copy of “Shtetl in the Adirondacks: The Story of Gloversville and Its Jews.” ...

In this intimate drama based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, a Jewish-American businessman finds his seemingly perfect life unraveling after his teenage daughter commits an ...

For years, Roth couldn’t get beyond the premise for his novel “American Pastoral.” Then he stumbled on a copy of “Shtetl in the Adirondacks: The Story of Gloversville and Its Jews.” ...

The bestselling author's latest, "Revenge of the Tipping Point," builds on a familiar idea from his books: You may think you ...

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People take those classics, mix ’n’ match ’em and then slowly (or quickly) turn them into definitive American dishes. And then we oftentimes send the reformulated food back out into the ...

When a German-American Benedictine monk wrote these words ... spent much of their priestly lives doing office rather than pastoral work. One needs little insight into the sociology of large ...

In making this list, we included soundtrack albums built around original songs (hey, Superfly) as well as expertly curated compilations (we see you, Quentin); some great soundtracks feature fresh ...

These terraforming stories often deployed pastoral motifs and structures to engage in socio-political enquiry. In his essay on novelistic chronotopes, Bakhtin classifies the pastoral as a subset of ...

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