This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
By Ezra Glinter June 25, 2010
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Ethan Pack talks to Amir Benayoun, an Israeli musician who embodies the country’s deepest fears.
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Benjamin Ivry examines the French Lithuanian novelist, journalist and bon vivant, Joseph Kessel.
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Allison Gaudet Yarrow takes a look at the Jewish Book Council’s two minute author tryouts.
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Jeremiah Lockwood teams up with Alexander Benaim of The Harlem Shakes for the latest installment of The Nigun Project.
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Michael Kaminer reviews “In a Dark Wood,” a magic realist novel by best-selling Dutch writer Marcel Möring.
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Stanley Siegelman riffs on the finer points of Yiddish grammar.
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Philologos argues that the New York Times should take another look at Jeffrey Goldberg’s (use of the word) tukhis.
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Mark Cohen writes about “An American Type,” the new Henry Roth novel culled from a 1,900 page manuscript by New Yorker editor Willing Davidson.
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Samuel D. Gruber investigates Sukkah City, an architecture competition coming to New York this fall.
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