Tongue Untangled.
A novel explores manifestations of religion, while ignoring its content.
A strange mixture of philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism.
From medieval anti-Semitism to occult novels to a real-life Harry Potter character.
A Tel Aviv hipster in King Arthur’s court.
Guy Gavriel Kay created Devin Bar Garin, but couldn’t mention Ben-Gurion.
Peter S. Beagle at eighty.
The anxiety of criticism.
Of demons and deracination.
Swords, dragons, and burning talmuds.
Gentile artists who portrayed different aspects of the Jewish people.
Short, bearded beings exiled from their homeland who have forever dreamed of returning.
The Israeli novelist S. Y. Agnon and J.R R. Tolkien, the English author of Lord of the Rings, do not appear to have much in. . .
The Obama administration’s eschewal of military intervention in favor of diplomacy has benefited Iran and Bashar al-Assad at the expense of Israel and the Syrian rebels.