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The Neglected Master

In 2006, Samuel Menashe won a prize for not winning prizes—and, for a brief downtown moment, his tiny, holy poems threaded through New York’s seemingly reemergent Jewish literary scene. Then it all came to an end.
By Dan Friedman
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    Psychedelics and Spirituality: A Primer

    Long used in indigenous ritual and now studied in elite labs, psychedelics are transforming everything from therapy to worship—amplifying wonder, exposing real risks, and complicating what we mean by “spirituality” in a disenchanted age
    By Jay Michaelson