The Passenger, Stella Maris, and scientism.
The novelist and rabbi Haim Sabato infuses tradition into fiction as well as any of the Yiddish greats. The difference? His work is unencumbered by modern angst.
Looking back to the venerable genre, I’m struck by how often anti-Semitism presents itself. The late John Le Carré is only the most recent to be accused of that unpleasant condition.
A strange mixture of philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism.
Terrorism works.
“Something to Remember Me By.”
Unhappy is the nation that can still make a great man out of Céline.
From medieval anti-Semitism to occult novels to a real-life Harry Potter character.
The author The Gulag Archipelago and his critics.
The characters in her new story collection are fully formed creatures of that transitional 20th-century moment between European Jewish survivors and American forgetters.
“A parable of anti-Semitism.”
A love letter to art and an indictment of the barbarism that all the beauty in the world was powerless to stop.
Why not see the fearfully diffident Saul by way of Harpo Marx?
The most polished writing and
sharpest analysis in the Jewish world.