Israel’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister Talks about His Career and His Country’s Future

Nov. 16 2022

Last Thursday—just three days before President Isaac Herzog invited him to form a new government—Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Dan Senor about his approach to politics, his upbringing, his relationships with American presidents, the challenges he sees as Israel facing in the coming years, and the possibilities of peace with Saudi Arabia. (Audio, 61 minutes.)

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More about: Abraham Accords, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politics, Saudi Arabia

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the 20th-Century Novel

April 30 2025

Reviewing Stranger Than Fiction, a new history of the 20th-century novel, Joseph Epstein draws attention to what’s missing:

A novelist and short-story writer who gets no mention whatsoever in Stranger Than Fiction is Isaac Bashevis Singer. When from time to time I am asked who among the writers of the past half century is likely to be read 50 years from now, Singer’s is the first name that comes to mind. His novels and stories can be sexy, but sex, unlike in many of the novels of Norman Mailer, William Styron, or Philip Roth, is never chiefly about sex. His stories are about that much larger subject, the argument of human beings with God. What Willa Cather and Isaac Bashevis Singer have that too few of the other novelists discussed in Stranger Than Fiction possess are central, important, great subjects.

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More about: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish literature, Literature