Joseph Epstein
Jakey
‘Everybody loved Jake Rosenheim, except his son Jimmy, who hated him’
Bachelor
A new Chicago short story by Joseph Epstein
The End of the Lazars
A new short story.
Self-Deception
“The weather in early November was cool enough for me to start a fire. We settled in. Old friends. Cosy. “Have any of you heard of a game called Self-Deception?” Ellie Kaplan asked.”
Birth Mother
A new short story
The Viagra Triangle
“Why did I so strongly prefer that Mr Sherman not be an old fool,
another lost wanderer in the Viagra Triangle?” A new short story.
The Man On Whom Everything Was Lost
“Jeremy Jacobson,” he said, putting out a hand. “I’m a graduate student but very passionate about Henry James.”
The Casanova Of LaSalle Street
A new short story by Joseph Epstein
Kizerman and Feigenbaum
A short story
Rachmones
A new short story
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities