Out and About: True Grit’s Oscar Chances; Bullet-Stopping Books

Image by Getty Images
-
Jewcy talks to novelist Myla Goldberg.
-
At Tablet, Leil Leibovitz eulogizes Israeli comic actor Yosef Shiloach.

Image by Getty Images
-
The New York Times Carpetbagger blog talks to the Coen “Boys” about “True Grit” and the Oscars.
-
Adam Kirsch reviews a new biography of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky.
-
Is Hebrew being threatened by too much translation?
-
Visit Khan Sharonim, a first-century stop along the Nabatean spice route.
-
And Joshua Cohen’s novel “Witz” (reviewed in the Forward here) is so big it can stop a bullet (kind of):