Israeli fiction from Iowa, for Valentine’s Day
Searing language, with God’s help
The Israeli master’s latest novel to be translated to English is about the intricate work of forging a community, and a national narrative
An excerpt from the late Ronit Matalon’s newly translated novel, ‘And the Bride Closed the Door’
The late writer’s best work reflects the larger anxieties of a society trying to shield its founding ideals against threats from hostile populations
David Grossman’s protagonist takes the mic for some Rothian self-loathing, in the ‘raucous’ new novel ‘A Horse Walks Into a Bar’
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s suspenseful new ‘Waking Lions’ turns the fateful collision of an Israeli doctor and an African immigrant into an indictment of surging nationalism
The Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy celebrates 20 years of imagining the future
Israeli novelist Gail Hareven dives fearlessly into the the moral quagmires of abuse, vengeance, and the legacy of the Holocaust
In his new novel, the great Israeli writer conjures a slow-burn connection between an innocent caretaker and her aging charge
In Zeruya Shalev’s fearless new ‘The Remains of Love,’ lives on a kibbutz stand as a parable of Israel
An original translation of new Hebrew fiction from Bernstein Prize-winner Dror Burstein, author of ‘Kin’
The writer’s new novel, ‘The Retrospective,’ is a surreal study of the contested sources of Israeli identity
The Auschwitz survivor known as Ka-Tzetnik 135633 wrote lurid novels derided as pornography when they were published. Now he’s Israel’s Elie Wiesel.
The hero of Shimon Ballas
