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Israel

Essay

What Poets Write About When They Write About Hebrew

Nao­mi B. Sokoloff
July 9, 2020
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Fic­tion
The Dri­ve
Yair Assulin, Jessica Cohen (trans.)  
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Non­fic­tion
To the Moon on a Plas­tic Bot­tle: The Sto­ry Behind Israel’s Start-Up Babies
Dan Raviv and Linor Bar-El
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Cook­book
Shuk: From Mar­ket to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking
Einat Admony, Janna Gur
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Fic­tion
Apeirogon
Colum McCann
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Chil­dren’s
Hard Hat Cat
Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, Maxine Lee (illus.)
Essay

‘Mor­tal­i­ty Faced You as a Ques­tion’: Ilana Masad on Liv­ing through Grief

Ilana Masad
May 11, 2020
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Fic­tion
All My Mother’s Lovers 
Ilana Masad
Essay

Ten Rules for Writers

Etgar Keret
April 27, 2020
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Fic­tion
House on End­less Waters
Emuna Elon; Anthony Berris and Linda Yechiel, trans.
Essay

Insider/​Outsider: Writ­ing Fic­tion in Eng­lish in Israel

Miryam Sivan
March 19, 2020
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Cook­book
Saba­ba: Fresh, Sun­ny Fla­vors From My Israeli Kitchen
Adeena Suss­man
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Loy­al to the Sky: Notes from an Activist
Marisa Han­dler
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Non­fic­tion
The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine
Yousef Bashir
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Non­fic­tion
Leav­ing Zion: Jew­ish Emi­gra­tion from Pales­tine and Israel after World War II
Ori Yehu­dai
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Friend­ly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Ene­my and the Hope for Its Future
Ami Ayalon
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