Observation ·
Nicole Krauss’s New Novel Plants a Forest. It Fails to Thrive.
By Jonathan LeafForest Dark is dazzling and promises insight into, among other things, contemporary Israel, but in the end it doesn't deliver.


Jonathan Leaf is a playwright and journalist living in New York.
Observation ·
Forest Dark is dazzling and promises insight into, among other things, contemporary Israel, but in the end it doesn't deliver.

Response ·
Too many films set in the Holocaust permit the audience to feel morally superior. Wouldn't it be better to tell a story about current anti-Semitism?

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