July 16, 2016
The Best Place on Earth: In Conversation with Ayelet Tsabari
Recently, I had the pleasure to correspond with Ayelet Tsabari, whose debut short story collection, The Best Place on Earth, won the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and was a 2016 Editor’s Choice in The […]
December 27, 2015
On Failure and Redemption: Bernard Malamud’s Pictures of Fidelman
Morality begins with an awareness of the sanctity of one’s life, hence the lives of others—even Hitler’s, to begin with—the sheer privilege of being, in this miraculous cosmos, and trying […]
November 13, 2015
Dybbuk or Ibbur: Midnight Dances with Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ghosts and all these things which people call today superstition are the very sparks which we are ignoring in our day. —Isaac Bashevis Singer in The Paris Review In an […]
September 13, 2015
On Books and Silence: Why I Cannot Pray on Rosh Hashanah
“Where are you?” “In what I say.” “What is your truth?” “What lacerates me.” “And your salvation?” “Forgetting what I said.” –“At the Threshold of the Book,” Edmond Jabès […]