My need to read something by Amos Oz has been growing for several years. It seemed unreasonable to me that I had not read anything by one of...

I'm giving up on The Fat Years  by Chan Koonchung. I'm more than halfway through the book, but after a week of trying to read this r...

At least, they shouldn't. The past few years, I've noticed a disturbing phenomenon in Israeli bookstores: books older than a year ...

If ever a book to have two starkly different titles in two different languages, The Confessions of Noa Weber  by Gail Hareven is a prime exa...

In an interesting post over at Tor.com, Steven Padnick  writes in defense of "red matter" : Red matter is... the stuff that exp...

I've blogged about Czesław Miłosz in the past: Miłosz has been one of my favorite poets since I first discovered him in the spring o...

Several months ago, I read My Dear I Wanted to Tell You  by Louisa Young. It's a book that compares two realities of the Great War: the ...

I saw this very interesting post about women characters in fantasy over at Fantasy Faction and was immediately struck by how much this  ne...

I've spent the past few days trying to muddle through my thoughts on the Israeli novel  Maternity Home  (בית היולדות). It's a weird ...

I love browsing through Gutenberg . Unlike standard booksellers, Gutenberg is a messy, delightfully unpredictable source of new reading mate...

I'm not exactly a Lev Grossman fan, but his post about what characters in fantasy novels should do more often is spot-on and quite hil...

On her blog, fantasy author N. K. Jemisin has written about magic systems and the way magic is portrayed in fantasy in general : Sometime...

The greatest week and a half of the year is coming to an end, and this year I visited the main Hebrew Book Week fairground twice. The first ...

I'll admit: I was kind of avoiding reading  Bring Up the Bodies . It wasn't just the anticipation (I haven't been this excited f...

I originally started reading A. B. Yehushua's A Woman in Jerusalem  several years ago. This was before the "Hebrew explosion" ...

Early art style, chapter 1 My labeling of Gunnerkrigg Court  as SAFL breaks two "rules" I set myself when beginning this proje...

Until a few days ago, I'd never heard of the Tchernichovsky Prize for translation. You probably haven't either - it's an Israeli...

While I had high hopes for The Buddha in the Attic , I don't think I ever really expected to like it. Another example of my prejudices a...

This is blasphemy, I know, but I have to get this off my chest. I have long supported libraries. I  know  that libraries face increasing ...

Liberty to the left, Freedom to the right... Following the recent publication of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom  in Hebrew, this week...