Uncertain Jew

An Egyptian exile considers Jewish identity—and his own—in a cosmopolitan world. Excerpted from the new essay collection Alibis.

Elsewhere

In the new Alibis, a revealing collection of essays, André Aciman finds in his exiled Egyptian life a quintessential diasporic Jewish identity

The Tablet Haggadah

Writers, artists, and a boxer meditate on the meaning of Passover

On the Bookshelf

Distinguished poets and undistinguished cops

Daybreak: Barack and Bibi, Phone Friends

Reassurances to Israel, Yads for sale, and more from the morning papers

Beyond Longing

Andre Aciman turns up the heat