Selected Writing
A dive into family history to understand my late grandfather’s work on behalf of Israel and what it teaches us about the course of American Jewry.
How Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men became the dystopian masterpiece of our time.
Inside the bizarre rise of a prep-school gangster who became an influential and controversial West Bank rabbi.
A quest to find and understand Steve Ditko, the man who co-created Spider-Man and invented Doctor Strange before disappearing from the public eye.
A visit with the Maus cartoonist at his studio, and a perilous search for some spectacles.
A new translation of The Book of Job sheds light on life during the collapse of civilization.
A beginner’s travelogue of Israel/Palestine on the brink.
An essay about the comic that built the modern superhero economy — for better or worse.
A reported dive into the bizarre, unsolved mystery of the world’s worst fanfiction story.