(Un)burdened by the past
Benjamin Selesnick
Ayalet Tsabari's new novel further develops themes that featured in her previous works: how Israelis of Arab descent have experienced discrimination in Israel, how marginalization begins and is enforced, and how embracing the exiled parts of oneself is an act of resistance that ultimately leads to identity integration.
Trouble in Paradise
Akin Ajayi
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen's fourth novel, a psychological thriller focusing on an Israeli family living in Silicon Valley, is further evidence of her prescience in first identifying then concatenating Israeli social dilemmas into personal morality plays.
He Was The Future
Yoav Di-Capua
A new book analyzes the rise and fall of Nasserism—once the most powerful political movement in the Middle East, sweeping the Arab World before it disappeared into thin air.
Libretto: Hanoch Levin
Tal Kra-Oz
Twenty-five years after his death, Israel's greatest playwright is given an operatic tribute. The lush adaptation could not be further removed from the crummy fringe theatres that once featured his sardonic satires—but it certainly does justice to his legacy.
October 7 and its aftermath: A view from Kurdistan and the Kurdish Diaspora
Veysi Dag
Hamas' attack on Israel played a pivotal role in Turkey's and Iran's longstanding imperialist strategy to destabilize the Middle East. Since then, they have been emboldened in myriad ways.
How different does this novel on Jewish history read post-Oct. 7?
Jessamyn Hope
Janice Weizman's new novel, 'Our Little Histories,' traces three branches of a Jewish family – American, Israeli and Eastern European – from 2015 back to the Pale of Settlement. In an interview she says that even though it was published on the eve of October 7, it still has a lot to say on our present moment.