This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss the Ukraine aid package, banning TikTok, Lina Khan’s FTC overreach, and the pro-Hamas protests sweeping America’s college campuses
This week, Walter and Jeremy discuss the Ukraine aid package, banning TikTok, Lina Khan’s FTC overreach, and the pro-Hamas protests sweeping America’s college campuses
Read Paul Berman’s review of 4 3 2 1, Auster’s novel about the late 1960s and all their Jewish rebelliousness
I have to admit that all this obsession with identity is one I don’t fully understand. Identity to me is my passport, which has my name and my photograph. I never considered my characters as being in any way confused about their identity. It is true, however, that they’re struggling, and that they suffer from loss or some other hardship and are trying to piece their lives back together, but these are universal struggles, neither Jewish nor non-Jewish. My ambition as a writer has always been to write about the meaningful things in a person’s life—being born, growing up, falling in love, being in love—and the experiences they create.
—Paul Auster, to Elad Zeret with Liel Leibovitz, on being Jewish
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