Great Regulars: To the extent that there is a Jewish culture

or identity that cuts across national boundaries, it is defined largely by storytelling. Just as many Jews now consider scripture to be what Wallace Stevens called a "supreme fiction," so fiction has become our contemporary scripture--a body of texts that creates Jewishness in a post-religious age. When we read the major Jewish writers of the last 60 years, we inevitably think about what they have in common and what we have in common with them, as Jews and interpreters of Jewish experience.

from Adam Kirsch: Tablet: Pilgrim's Progress

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