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2:18 PM, May 14, 2012 • By KELLY JANE TORRANCE

What do Maurice Sendak, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Commentary magazine have in common?

Singer, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote his works first in Yiddish, and some were translated and published in Commentary. Sendak, on the other hand, is best known for the 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are.

But after the death last week of the man "widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century," Jewish Ideas Daily rediscovered a Singer-Sendak. Sendak illustrated Singer's first book for the young, Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories. The site has reprinted three of those stories, with drawings by Sendak well suited to Singer's art (they aren't quite as fanciful as those in Wild Things). The illustrated stories were first published in Commentary in July 1966.

9:30 AM, Nov 17, 2011 • By THE SCRAPBOOK

"Are you optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future?” asks our friend and colleague John Podhoretz in the November issue of Commentary, the august journal he edits.

How Norman Podhoretz made it

Nov 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 • By DOUGLAS MURRAY

Norman Podhoretz

4:51 PM, Sep 7, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

TWS senior editor Andrew Ferguson's latest Commentary column is available online:

In the postwar era, no magazine has matched the breadth of ‘Commentary.’

Jul 5, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 40 • By JOSEPH EPSTEIN

Much of my education, such as it is, is owing to intellectual journalism. I first discovered the intellectual journals—Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, Dissent, Encounter, and others—in my wanderings in the periodical room of William Rainey Harper Library in my junior year at the University of Chicago. These magazines functioned for me as a continuation of the Great Books education served up, with vastly uneven allure, in the school’s dour classrooms.

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