As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change a...
The Weirdness swirls around Harold Schreiber and his family like snakes made of black mist. Where it comes from is unknown, but what it is doing is clear-it's eating away at the woodwork of this man's life. During his childhood, Harold's mother is mo...
Alienated from virtually everything that surrounds him, Akeyde Kletser has to decide if he is willing to commit suicide-and take hundreds of others with him-for the sake of his religion and his tribe. His father urges him on, citing their religion's ...
When the New Masses launched in May 1926, Time called it as a smoky vessel, ungainly but powerful, with daubs of red on her lunging bows and red marks here and there on her somewhat disorderly running gear. Focused equally on artistic quality and so...
Rabbi Efraim Williams volunteers to teach a class on Jewish sexual ethics to the students at a local Jewish high school. He wants to find an authentic middle ground between the strict observance of the ultra-Orthodox rabbi who teaches in the school a...