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'They Asked for a Line to Put on German Buses. I Chose: ‘Berlin, Give Me My Father Back''

Haaretz
Israeli Author Yoel Hoffmann, Who Died Friday at 86, Was a Unique Mitteleuropean Voice in Israeli literature. I Met Him Two Months Ago for...
15 months ago

Etgar Keret: By the Book (Published 2015)

The New York Times
The novelist, story writer and author, most recently, of the memoir “The Seven Good Years,” is a fan of Kafka. “It was a great comfort to...
112 months ago

New Books, by Joshua Cohen

Harper's Magazine
Paradox, futility, the veil dance between the imaginary and the actual, homesickness for a foreign or nonexistent home: these are the themes of Yoel Hoffmann.
106 months ago

MFA Reading Series: Peter Cole

Boise State University
The MFA Reading Series presents renowned poet and translator Peter Cole, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. “Peter Cole has been merging the...
1 month ago

The Creative Writing MFA Reading Series announces stellar fall line-up

Boise State University
This fall's line-up includes Luke Roberts, DA Powell, Peter Cole and Adam Johnson. Each semester, the MFA Reading Series brings acclaimed poets and fiction...
2 months ago

Introducing Tablet’s Passover Playlist

Tablet Magazine
A simulated Seder playlist. The finished product reflects an array of musical and Jewish traditions, from Ashkenazi to Sephardi to Jack Black.
56 months ago

The Literatures of the Two Easts

Tablet Magazine
Reading Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann's newly published autobiographical novel Curriculum Vitae (New Directions) caused me to think about the...
184 months ago

Jenny Diski’s Jisei: On Death Poems and In Gratitude

Literary Hub
A couple of years ago, I participated in a reading at Hollywood Forever—a cemetery in Los Angeles that has resurrected itself (okay,...
100 months ago

Black Illumination: Zen and the poetry of death

The Japan Times
The story of Kozan's death is not unusual in the Zen tradition. It is part of a larger practice of writing jisei ("death poems"), which continued for hundreds...
101 months ago

Interview with the Batsheva Company: on dance and Naharin's new show 'Venezuela'

Time Out
The scoop on what these international and Israeli dancers in the Batsheva Company think about Ohad Naharin's new dance work, Venezuela,...
91 months ago