Harvey Blume

Arts Remembrance: Critic Stanley Crouch — Jazz as a Metaphor for Democracy

September 21, 2020
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“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”

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Police Violence Commentary: Another NYPD Murder — Two Decades Ago

September 11, 2020
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To be killed — as in murdered — by police you don’t necessarily have to be a person of color.

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Film Review: “The Rabbi Goes West” — Jews Coddled in Big Sky Country

August 12, 2020
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This is a film for another moment in time, an imaginary if not necessarily utopian moment when being Jewish is less roiled and bedeviled from within and without.

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Author Remembrance: Writer Pete Hamill — Sane, Liberal, and Literate

August 7, 2020
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The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it’s not journalism.

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Special Feature: Quotes for the New Year

January 1, 2020
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Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.

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Book Interview: The Late Harold Bloom Talks Religion

October 16, 2019
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Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.

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Arts Interview: Talking With David Milch

June 6, 2019
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“I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer.”

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Television Commentary: Martin v. Tolkien

April 30, 2019
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Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?

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Feature: Quotes for the New Year

January 1, 2019
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Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.

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Television Review: “Shtisel” — A Charming Look at Jerusalem’s Ultra-Orthodox

December 25, 2018
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Shtisel offers a humane glimpse into the lives of people who would normally be shrouded from me by all sorts of religious and political barriers.

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