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Giving Thanks For The Arts

The e-mail from my editor was helpful. “Your column will run just before Thanksgiving weekend, so why not do something about giving thanks for the arts, since they offer ‘a momentary stay against confusion,’ as Robert Frost said of poetry?” I had thought of the great columnist Jimmy Breslin, who always devoted his Thanksgiving column […]

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Lighting Up December In Berlin

Why does Berlin always remind me so much of New York? Probably because it is a bracing blast of modern, multicultural energy on a continent where those qualities are still often less evident than in the New World. Compared to a decade ago, it’s remarkable how thoroughly cosmopolitan the city has become. Formerly dreary neighborhoods […]

Some Real Jewish Muscle

‘The Mighty Atom’ charts the life of strongman Joseph Greenstein, who laid waste to a Nazi myth.

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