The Dark Side of the Heart
by Mitch GinsburgThe first night of the International Writer’s Festival in Jerusalem a few dozen people sat down in the Mishkenot Sha’ananim auditorium to hear Zeruya Shalev and Siri Hustvedt discuss...
View ArticleWriting in the Dark
Novelists are frequently asked during interviews how much they know about their books before they begin. So it was no surprise when the question was put to Paul Auster and David Grossman last Tuesday...
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A.B. Yhoshua and Daniel Mendelsohn
By Mitch GinsburgA.B Yehoshua and Daniel Mendelsohn were at the big tent last night in Mishkenot Sha’ananim, proving to one and all that opposites really do attract, and that they make fascinating...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh and Meir Shalev
By Judy LabensohnYesterday Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh visited Tel Aviv University to receive the $1 million Dan David Prize in literature for “Rendition of the 20th Century.” Atwood, the...
View ArticleThe exotic library
For weeks now I’ve been feeling like a nineteenth century explorer in my own home. I’m not referring to the fact my three-year-old daughter and I made aliyah last month in the middle of the academic...
View ArticleHerzl
by Judy LabensohnEver since I read Amos Eilon’s biography Herzl as background for an articleI wrote for Hadassah Magazine in 2004 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Theodore Herzl’s death, I...
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Light Fell, on authenticity and desire
Novelist and translator Evan Fallenberg will be the first to tell you he is currently living his dream, though, he cautions, it was a long time coming. He’s probably one of the most grateful people...
View ArticleOdeh Bisharat's reluctant hero
By Mitch GinsburgIsraeli Arabs are the minority people of the eternal minority people. This is a strange, sometimes cruel and sometimes humorous place to find yourself. It is also, I think, some very...
View ArticleJanice Weizman interviews novelist David Bezmozgis
David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to Canada with his family when he was six years old. He is the author of Natasha and other stories and The Free World After spending week in...
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