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Alice Neel, Mike Gold, 1952. © The Estate of Alice Neel Courtesy (Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner) Is it time to release Michael Gold from his personal gulag to range free in the pastures of 20th-century American literature? BOOKS IN REVIEW By Patrick Chura Gold—“Mike” to his comrades—was a key figure in American letters from the mid-1920s well into the Great Depression. A leading advocate and practitioner of “proletarian literature,” he was also the editor of New Masses, perhaps the most important left-wing periodical of the 1930s. A committed, vocifer...

By GEORGE WOOLSTON | Burlington County Times | Published: May 12, 2021 WILLINGBORO, N.J. (Tribune News Service) — A request for federal funding for the project to connect the Fort Dix and Lakehurst sections of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has gone before a new committee. U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D-03) recently submitted an $8 million request to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for the Route 539 overpass project. The committee request, Kim said, is potentially a new path toward funding the critical infrastructure project. "The trouble we've had before, there's cont...

Once again, we are faced with the ugly spectacle of a terrorist-generated war in the Middle East. Disturbances on the... What Walter Lippmann called “the acids of modernity” were at work in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, where heterodox ideas, including socialism and then Bundism and Zionism, eroded traditional orthodoxies. Cahan’s novel is described as “semi-autobiographical,” but uses fictional plot devices — such as David’s mother murdered in a pogrom — for melodramatic effect. Abraham Cahan’s real life was dramatic enough. The son of a Hebrew teacher and tavern keeper, C...

The New York Times opinion writer accused of serving as an unregistered, paid foreign agent of Iran may have a... Born in Brooklyn, the son of a successful New York lawyer, Harland was educated at the City College of New York and Harvard Divinity School. He had to hold down a tedious day job while writing  fiction at night. He believed that writers who were “old stock” Americans like himself were being ignored in favor of authors of “ethnic fiction.” His solution: the “Sidney Luska” appellation, which he used in fiction with melodramatic Jewish characters and plots. Stephanie Foo...

Reverend Charles Robinson will give his last sermon on Sunday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Robinson, who arrived in Park City 17 years ago, relied on his experience as a licensed marriage and family counselor who holds degrees in clinical psychology, philosophy and divinity, to lead his congregation and serve the community. Photo courtesy of Nancy Conrow Reverend Charles Robinson plans to give his last sermon as rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, April 18, after 17 years of weekly sermons and service in the Park City community. “I’m retiring,” Robinson said in his tra...