Iran Is Blind, Deaf, and Humiliated
The practical and psychological effects of the Israeli attack.
October 30, 2024
Writers against Free Expression Rally to Boycott Israel
“Publishing in translation sure beats prissily refusing to allow my precious sentences to be corrupted by the language of Jews.”
In 2021, the Irish author Sally Rooney—whose works have been published in China—turned down an offer to have her novel Normal People translated into Hebrew on the grounds that she deems Israel an especially evil country. Now she has joined some 400 other writers in calling for a mass boycott of the Israeli publishing industry. Lionel Shriver, an accomplished novelist and essayist herself, considers this literary drive to conformity:
October 30, 2024
The “Generals’ Plan” to Lay Siege to Northern Gaza
The originator of this alternative strategy makes his case.
Writers against Free Expression Rally to Boycott Israel
“Publishing in translation sure beats prissily refusing to allow my precious sentences to be corrupted by the language of Jews.”
The Real Imbalance between Adam and Eve in the Garden
Man, but not woman, is described as lonely.
Mourning the Last of the Deans of Israeli Holocaust Historians
Yehuda Bauer, in memoriam.