American Jewish writers flourish, but Englishness and Jewishness seem mutually contradictory. Read the article byLINDA GRANT In 1937 the teenaged
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Category: Novel
The Yid
Please be offended–be offended by the title, be offended by the behaviour of the characters, by the way the author
Continue readingDeborah Levy Shortlisted for Booker
Paul Beatty, Deborah Levy, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Szalay, and Madeleine Thien have been named to the shortlist
Continue readingOutrageous bullying for the good of the family in G B Stern’s The Matriarch
Detailed discussion of The Matriarch by G. B.Stern from Kate MacDonald on her blog. There is something particularly enjoyable about
Continue readingIain Sinclair on the trail of Roland Camberton
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/30/fiction
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A recording of the whole day of the conference at Birkbeck College, September 11, 2013. http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/09/writing-jews-in-contemporary-britain/ Writing Jews in Contemporary
Continue readingJonathan Wilson on being an English Jew
“For the British-born novelist and long-standing American citizen Jonathan Wilson, “A Jew can never really be English” without “the abnegation
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