How America Bamboozled Itself on Iran
"Hoping that a seventy-five-year-old man will die soon is not exactly a sound strategy."
March 13, 2015
At Last, a Novelist of Everyday Israel
And not of the Yehoshua Oz-David Grossman school of national soul-searching.
The Israeli novelist Irit Linur has translated books by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens into Hebrew, and crafted a TV mini-series based on Pride & Prejudice. She also famously canceled her subscription to Haaretz in an open letter blasting its “radical leftism” and “anti-Zionism . . . often turned into malevolent and stupid journalism.” Her own novels, although sometimes set to the backdrop of war, avoid the issues of politics and identity so often associated with Israeli literature. Noga Emanuel writes:
March 13, 2015
Islamic State’s War on Civilization
How IS is at once medieval and distinctly modern.
Why Should Israel Be a Nation-State at All?
Because nationalism ties together the particular and the universal.
At Last, a Novelist of Everyday Israel
And not of the Yehoshua Oz-David Grossman school of national soul-searching.
New Light on the Dead-Sea Scrolls
How new technology is being used to understand the scrolls.