Can poet Linda Zisquit keep the enlightenment ideal of the salon alive in Israel?
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a memoir of my dear friend, the novelist Ilona Karmel, who died 15 years ago
Plus a rabbi’s take on Inside Llewyn Davis, and more in the news
The blog could have lived—even gotten better—after Beinart
Hebrew University professor Bernard Avishai’s playful new critical look at Philip Roth’s 1969 classic digs deep into the novel’s neurotic passion
Fresh off Booker win, novelist honored with discussion of his latest
Rotem bill, currently frozen, provoked strong opposition stateside
Avishai aims at Newhouse, misses
‘Peace’ should come before ‘Israel,’ argues commentator