#whatireadovershabbat Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism, edited by Jo Glanville (W. W. Norton, 2022) It’s been hard to set...

#whatireadovershabbat Susie Linfield’s The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (Yale University Press,...

“We have wandered enough,” one passenger explained to Stone. “We have worked and struggled too long on the lands of other peoples. We...

#whatireadoveryomkippur Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, translated by John E. Woods (1901; Everyman's Library, 1994) There’s a line in...

#whatireadoverroshhashanah The Iliad, translated by E. V. Rieu (Penguin Classics, 1950) I would have preferred a book in the spirit of...

#whatireadovershabbat Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970; Vintage, 2007) The Bluest Eye is a hard book. Hard because Morrison, as...

#whatireadovershabbat Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch Barley Patch, by Australian writer Gerald Murnane, is one of the weirdest and most...

#whatireadovershabbat Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (trans. Michael R. Katz) I never thought I’d feel Crime and Punishment...

I am persuaded that many excellent persons, if they were confronted with the alternatives of reading Paradise Lost and going round...