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Editors’ Pick

July 30, 2015

In Committing “Heresy,” a Collection of New Hebrew Writing Plays Dumb

Is acknowledging terror too much to ask?

In a recent issue, the magazine World Literature Today featured translations of fourteen pieces of new Hebrew writing. Introducing the collection, the guest editors explain their decision to avoid Israel’s grand political questions and instead to commit the “heresy of normalcy.” For Erika Dreifus, there’s something decidedly “un-heretical” about the entire collection:

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