Meir Shalev’s Distinctive Israeli Voice
Though Shalev is gone, he deserves a wider reading in America.
Bulli, In Loving Memory
Bulli was a cherished author and a sweetly avuncular, talkative presence in my life. He became a true friend and intimate interlocutor.
From the Newsletter | Remembering A.B. Yehoshua
Yehoshua died on Tuesday at the age of 85, and it’s hard not to feel we are nearing the end of an era.
Etgar Keret: Outside the Israeli Bubble
A woman sprawls face-down on a table, her face in a breakfast dish and a banana peel near her knee. Soon she wakes and arises with jerky but highly choreographed movements coordinated with a whimsical soundtrack. She turns on the television, a Japanese announcer appears, shuffling papers, and she quickly shuts it off. As she turns away, the television flicks back on of its own accord, and we’ve entered the slightly magical but recognizable world of an Etgar Keret story, recently made into a short film.
Redeeming Haim Hazaz
by Darren Pinsker
When the Israeli writer Haim Hazaz died in 1973, his reputation was so lofty in the world of modern Hebrew letters that one...