literature

Ideas

Literature celebrates nuance. So why does the book world feel so one-sided on Israel?

The erasure of Israeli suffering in literary circles comes as no surprise to a longtime writer, poet and newsletter editor.

In ‘The Books of Jacob,’ Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk tells a story about Jews. But is it a Jewish novel?

“This is a phenomenon happening in all of Eastern Europe, when Jewish culture is created by non-Jews, for non-Jews, but about the Jews,” one Polish Jewish scholar said.

Susan Choi wins National Book Award for fiction

Choi, whose mother is Jewish and whose father is of Korean descent, won for her novel “Trust Exercise.”

Global

A top French novelist published Holocaust denials and caricatures 30 years ago

Ideas

Remembering Aharon Appelfeld, from charnel house to whorehouse to a home in Israel

Culture

The Baddest Yiddish-Speaking Jews of Warsaw and New York

Culture

A Jewish Cult Poet and His Famous Anti-Semitic Friend

Culture

Bob Dylan gets his Nobel Prize in Stockholm ceremony without media

Global

Author Imre Kertesz, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Culture

Book about mental illness — created by a Jewish father and son — wins National Book Award

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