The ‘Arabic Booker Prize’ Could Make History This Year
This could be the first time a woman is named the sole winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Books
Sporting Champion, Feminist Icon, Nazi Spy? The Extraordinary Life of Violette Morris
She broke numerous athletics records, chose to have a mastectomy to help her fit into a motor car better and had love affairs with the likes of Josephine Baker. Now a new book wants to set the record straight on the woman accused of betraying the French Resistance
Of Yom Kippur and Baseball
Amichai Chasson’s poem ‘America’ captures three moments in front of a TV screen, spanning 44 years of U.S.-Israeli relations on both a national and personal level
Josef K. in Jerusalem’s Old City
Benjamin Balint on his book ‘Kafka’s Last Trial,’ and why no streets in Israel are named after the Jewish writer
Book Review The Kafkaesque Court Battle Over Kafka's Literary Remains
In a new book, Benjamin Balint unravels the circumstances that led to the bitter fight over Max Brod's estate and the way it played out in courtrooms in Israel and abroad
The Son Kafka Never Knew He Had
Until shortly before his death, Max Brod debated whether or not to publish the story about the illegitimate child Kafka may have had — and shared those deliberations with my mother, a poet, in an apartment in Tel Aviv
Trying to Woo Israelis Away From Netflix, Book Sellers Use Steep Discounts
Slumping sales and the end of the controversial Book Law have led to a sudden price war between two top retailers during Hebrew Book Week
Etgar Keret's New Book: As Witty as a Good Holocaust Joke
In the writer’s latest book, now available in Hebrew, the world remains the same gloomy and absurd place – and the laughter is even less present than before