Chapter 3, The Diasporic Reader, studies interpretive practices from the pluralistic perspective of diaspora, through the lens offered by the particular resources of Jewish diaspora in two specific complementary areas, that of commentary and that of song. Each of these refers to a well-acknowledged aspect of Jewish diasporic culture: commentary evokes the development of rabbinical reading practices as a paradoxical, self-sustainable locus—a textual meeting ground—while song suggests the topical dilemma expressed in Psalm 137, which seems to call into question the very possibility of diasporic poetry. Both may be seen as ways of embedding interpretive pluralism into one’s reading practice as dialog from the start, either through commentary as a mode of dialogic exchange or through plurilingual song as its own form of dialog. After having thus contextualized the notion of diaspora, and the debates surrounding its use in the context of literary criticism, I turn to the work of Louis Zukofsky as an instance of diasporic reading practices in American letters, by looking at his often-neglected magnum opus, Bottom: On Shakespeare.