This afternoon, Longform.org published a piece from our most recent print magazine, by David Samuels

How the famed writer’s unrequited passion for Janet Sussman led to the era-defining best-seller, and how Segal, who died six years ago this week, never got over her

Remembering the French intellectual, a man of influential ideas

Tablet Original Fiction: Called up, and called back, for duty on the front lines of Israel Defense Force’s Northern Command

How Benjamin Netanyahu could come to claim, and later retract, that the former mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, led Hitler to the Final Solution

Tracing the fate of 25,000 volumes lost to the Holocaust

An affair—‘the pain of creation, yet without the creation’—by the great 20th-century Brazilian writer, from the ‘Complete Stories’

Al Seckel has left the country. But the world’s greatest collector of optical illusions left some troubles behind.

Tablet Original Fiction: ‘Ruth had always assumed she’d die a one-man virgin.’

Will an art restitution allow Michael Hayden to reconnect with his German roots?

How a freelancer’s Heaven turned into Hell: Inspired by a blend of bravery, wanderlust, and humanism, a budding journalist ventured—without the kind of institutional structure and support that would have been common a decade ago—into an inflamed Middle East.

Tablet Original Fiction: Meet Phil the Kosher butcher, non-traditional writing student, counterfactual storyteller, Lothario

The grim satire of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ controversy, in context

‘I don’t believe in you, “salvation,” I never have and I never will. And very soon I won’t even be.’

A new English translation of fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Lag BaOmer

A South African goes home to Israel

Tablet original fiction, on Vladimir Nabokov’s 116th birthday

Tablet Original Fiction: a rabbi, a broken soul, and a huge wad of cash

Michael Freund is on a mission to lead millions of self-declared Jews home to Israel. What happens if he succeeds?

Tablet Original Fiction set in the all-inclusive resorts of the Dominican Republic

The Jewish state seeks to bring the Bedouin in from the desert

Seventy people, speeding into the unknown

A short story by Michael Chabon

Why my sisters can’t think straight about Israel

‘We were told that everybody has to watch.’ Harrowing fiction from Polish great Marek Hlasko, in a first English translation.

A bris gone wrong comes back to haunt Pavel Zitskovich Bitsnikov

Why Holocaust accounts—and their fictions or omissions—can be a threat to the history of a complicated, tragic human reality

John Adams’s masterpiece is about an American Jew murdered by Palestinian terrorists, but the real opera is off stage

A vitriolic medieval manuscript illuminates how Google is destroying the act of reading

For Yom Kippur, fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, in a first English translation