Wuthering
Expectations

I begin with James McNeill Whistler’s 1864 Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen , on display at the Freer , just because I like it,...

Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo or Drifting Clouds (1887-89) is the first modern Japanese novel. Meaning the first to successfully incorpor...

I read most of the Yiddish books I meant to read, almost as many more that I found along the way, and now have an even longer list of books ...

Don Quixote is a satire on romances. Don Quixote has his brain addled by tales of knights and heroes, but discovers that the world has chan...

My "Currently Reading" pile has spun out of control. It's all the fault of my Yiddish literature project. There are so many go...

"The Little Man," from 1864, is Mendele Mocher Sforim's first Yiddish story. "Fishke the Lame," from 1869, is his th...

Despite working on this week's lists, I did not really plan to immediately start reading Yiddish authors. But the lists sharpened my app...

Three authors are at the core of early Yiddish literature: S. Y. Abramovitsh aka Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836-1917), Sholom Aleichem (1859-19...

Before I went to Senegal last year, I put together a little reading list, a reader's bibliography, of Senegalese literature. Making the ...