Daphne Merkin was a staff writer for The New Yorker and is currently a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Elle. She is the author of a novel, Enchantment, and a collection of essays, Dreaming of Hitler.
Are Jews Really Liberal?
In time for the High Holidays, Daphne Merkin examines the hot air rhetoric in Norman Podhoretz's new polemic, Why Are...
Sex Scandal for the History Books
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Bright Nights, Shady City
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John Updike's Final Chapter
Whether he was writing about sex, golf, or life in a small town, the fecund mind who gave the world Rabbit was never ...
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