Out and About
Image by Courtesy of Arizona State University
By Ezra Glinter December 12, 2011
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Dozens of Israeli artists, intellectuals, academics and former military officials are asking Prime Minister Netanyahu to freeze the country’s wave of anti-democratic legislation.
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NPR’s “On the Media” talks to author Susan Daitch about her novel “Paper Conspiracies” and the Dreyfus Affair.
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Stanley Kauffmann reviews “Paul Goodman Changed My Life.” (Read The Arty Semite’s review here
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Israel once boasted a thriving pulp fiction industry.
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André Aciman reflects on a Gypsy song of mysterious origin.
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Christopher Hitchens questions whether whatever doesn’t kill him makes him shtarker.
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Al Jaffee gives some snappy answers to stupid questions.
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Shachar Pinsker asks that age old question, “What is Jewish literature?”
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German literary magazine Lichtungen includes translations of contemporary Forverts writers in its New Jewish Literature issue.
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Comic book artist Jerry Robinson, credited with having creating the Joker, has died at age 89.
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The Groggers respond to the YU Beacon controversy:
