The Struggle for Iraq, and What It Means for Israel
The U.S. faces off with Iran.
October 17, 2018
And British insistence that there is no such thing.
A year ago, the late Philip Roth invited Salman Rushdie to give the Newark Public Library’s annual Philip Roth Lecture. Delivering the lecture in September of this year, as scheduled, and as printed in the Forward, Rushdie took the opportunity to eulogize Roth, to speak of Roth’s influence on his own work, and to comment on a particular conversation that made a lasting impression:
The U.S. faces off with Iran.
The danger of forgetting that man cannot live by bread alone.
Killing the Lavi.
The bloody reign of Alexander Yannai.
And British insistence that there is no such thing.
A year ago, the late Philip Roth invited Salman Rushdie to give the Newark Public Library’s annual Philip Roth Lecture. Delivering the lecture in September of this year, as scheduled, and as printed in the Forward, Rushdie took the opportunity to eulogize Roth, to speak of Roth’s influence on his own work, and to comment on a particular conversation that made a lasting impression:
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