Out and About: Jason Schwartzman on ‘Bored to Death’; Al Pacino on Broadway
Image by Joan Marcus
By Ezra Glinter November 1, 2010
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In Poland and Hungary, one of the largest cases of Nazi art theft remains unresolved.
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Jason Schwartzman loves being “Bored to Death.”
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Garry Shandling’s pioneering HBO sitcom “The Larry Sanders Show” is getting a revival on DVD.
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Al Pacino brings Shylock from Central Park to Broadway.
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Read a history of Israel’s modern dance movement.
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Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany, author of “The Yacoubian Building,” has objected to having his work translated into Hebrew.
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Israeli writer Etgar Keret and artist Michal Rovner have been awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters.
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Read an excerpt from Adam Levin’s enormous new novel, “The Instructions.”
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Gary Shteyngart gives a tour of his alma mater, Stuyvesant High School.
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Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch (the son of a Jewish mother and a Nazi collaborator), Kennedy adviser and self-described “Danish Russian Jewish Unitarian” Theodore Sorensen, and leading Israeli archeologist Ehud Netzer have died.
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