My three homelands: ‘Israeli literature is like a colorful peep show for tired Europe,’ says Lizzie Doron, chosen by French Vogue as one of Israel’s 7 most influential authors. [Haaretz]
America anti-intellectual? Now, let’s think this out: The issue, in short, is complicated. And the greatest flaw of The Age of American Unreason, a spirited, provocative polemic by a veteran freelance journalist and author who writes books on weighty subjects usually handled by professors (e.g., justice, the history of secularism), is that it feeds the notion of American anti-intellectualism as a no-brainer truth. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Just the Facts, Ma’Am: Fake memoirs, factual fictions, and the history of history. [New Yorker]
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