Primo Levi’s Work Outshines His Murky Death
As the July 31 centenary of Primo Levi’s birth approached this past summer, Italy paid homage....
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Book Review | A Writer Who Opened Doors
How tragic that we recently lost one of Israel’s great writers—Ronit Matalon—who died at the young age of 58....
My People in Cartoons
A combination of misanthropy and compassion for your fellow humans, and at least some ability to draw and write—this is what makes a cartoonist....
The Passions of a Prime Minister, Revealed
What quality did people see in David Ben-Gurion that made him indispensable, when so many other qualities made him plainly impossible?...
In ‘Call Me by Your Name’ Sequel, a Chance at Second Love
If Call Me by Your Name, the bestselling 2007 romance novel by André Aciman, was an ode to the passions and discoveries of a first love, then Aciman’s new sequel, Find Me, asks us to believe in something much more perilous: second love....
The Magic of Alice Hoffman
The best-selling writer infuses her new novel on the Holocaust with Jewish legend—in the form of a rare female golem. "For me," she says, "literature and magic are kind of melded together."...
Five Books to Be an Educated Jew: Part II
Jewish thinkers and doers—including Noah Feldman, Angela Buchdahl, Fania Oz-Salzberger and Joan Nathan—share five recommendations....
Book Review | Steely Veneer, Private Struggle
I met Susan Sontag only once; it was after a dramatic reading of a translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantyk, which I went to hear with a group of friends in 1994....
Book Review | Princess Schweppessodawasser’s Surprising Romance
Language is failing Beryl Dusinbery. She is 99 years old and having trouble retrieving words. “One minute she has a word, then she hasn’t. Where does it go?...
Book Review | It Happened Here, Too
Around the middle of the afternoon on Saturday, September 22, 1928, Marion Griffiths sent her four-year-old daughter, Barbara, off to find her older brother Bobby...