January 31, 2016
The Happiness Game: On Yael Hadaya’s “Housebroken” (Part 2)
“The Happiness Game,” the second story in Housebroken, is my favorite of the three novellas. While the idea of a happiness game is a universal paradox, it is also quintessentially an Israeli one. […]
October 13, 2015
Stranger in the Midrahov: On Forgiveness
I think artists have a strange sense of happiness. It’s always a little painful. There’s an ache to touch something untouchable, but when we do, it disrupts, shakes, the borders […]