Marco Roth is Tablet’s Critic at Large.
Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’ tells us a lot about what its author doesn’t want to know
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
Ten years after bloody Islamist attacks sent thousands of French Jews fleeing to Israel, France feels surprisingly resilient—while American Jews fear what comes next
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’
‘Carlos’ is the most complex and exhaustive film about a phenomenon that has defined the politics of the past half-century
Ben Lerner’s ‘The Lights’ is a collection of auto-fictional poems from a master of self-validating ambiguity
Don’t let your iPhones overheat in the sun. Read a book instead.
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 through the race, class, and gender shitstorms to become the best new novel no one has read yet
On faithful translation and who it is for
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
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