Marco Roth on literature and culture in exile.
New novels by a Palestinian and an Israeli exhaust the literature of feminine dissociation. Only one of them will be stocked at your local bookstore.
A romantic comedy stumbles its way into the Zionist unconscious of American Jewry
A new biography of Frantz Fanon reminds us how the left came to prefer their Jews non-Jewish and their Blacks vocally Black
Today’s antisemites wish to save Jews from the darkness of their Jewish natures
A review of Adam Thirlwell’s sumptuous, quasi-feminist time-travel novel, ‘The Future Future’
Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ is a collection of auto-fictional poems from a master of self-validating ambiguity
A new anti-memoir memoir revisits a critical moment in the history of air piracy while plumbing the false consciousness of American Jews
Vince Passaro’s ‘Crazy Sorrow’ passed nearly unnoticed through the race, class, and gender shitstorms to become the best new novel no one has read yet
A new completist edition of Kafka’s diaries lures readers into the Kafkaesque experience of seeing the author dissolve into an auto-fictional scrapheap
‘Leopoldstadt’ and ‘The Fabelmans’
Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ dials back the anxiety and edits out the Jews
I bid goodbye to my boxes
Janet Malcolm’s successor at The New Yorker has a different take on the impossible profession
Searching for what is lost in ‘Le Temps Perdu,’ María Alvarez’s artful documentary on an Argentine book club
Everything you thought would prepare you for success instead narrows your chances of survival
Robert Eggers’ new film is a techno-shamanistic reversion of Shakespeare’s wordy ambivalence by way of ‘Game of Thrones’
Donald Antrim’s ‘One Friday in April’ gratefully embraces the medicalization of suicide
