Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 19, 2025January 19, 2025 Literature

Click Here to Read: Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers: Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems By Adrian Nathan West in the New York Times on December. 22, 2024.

Paul Celan 1938. Image: Unknown, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 15, 2025January 15, 2025 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy: Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact by Teresa Nowakowski on the Smithsonian Magazine website on January 15, 2025

Derveni papyrus. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2024December 18, 2024 Literature, Science

Click here to Read: Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams: Alizah Holstein Considers the Intersection of Academic Knowledge and Creative Passion By Alizah Holstein on the Literary Hub website on June 25, 2024.

What Alice Munro Knew

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2024 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: What Alice Munro Knew: The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and other children. Why did she stay silent? in The New York Times on December 8, 2012.

Alice Munro Image: MacDowell. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

The chutzpah of a supposedly dying language that’s thrillingly alive

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 28, 2024November 28, 2024 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The chutzpah of a supposedly dying language that’s thrillingly alive by By John McWhorter in The New York Times on November 28, 2024.

Poster for “The Yiddish King Lear”. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 22, 2024November 22, 2024 Arts, Literature, Politics

Click Here to Read: A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them. A “contemporary, spirited” version of Shakespeare’s play opens off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company By Joseph Strauss November 20, 2024.

Shakespeare’s comedy of the Merchant of Venice. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

A Sociologist/Psychoanalyst Writes a Novel/Memoir with Roberta Satow

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 22, 2024September 22, 2024 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Listen to: Episode 166: A Sociologist/Psychoanalyst Writes a Novel/Memoir with Roberta Satow, PhD (Washington, CT) on the IPA Off the Couch website on September 22, 2023.