Literature

Khamenei’s elimination: Will assassination become the norm for regime change? - opinion

Will the targeted killing in which Israel excelled – and is morally justified – return to haunt it as a threatening boomerang?

A woman holds a picture of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026
Entrance hall of the Supreme Court, decorated with a section of mosaic pavement recovered from the 5th-to-8th-century Hamat Gader synagogue, near the Golan Heights.

'Rogue Justice': Exploring how Israel’s top court turned into a political powerhouse - review

EMILY’S JOURNEY in the land of doors. Artwork by Orit Magia

'Emily Saw a Door': Learning to create spaces for each other with creativity, acceptance - review

From right: 2025 Sapir Prize debut winner Roni Partchek, honored for her novel “Sitara,” with Mifal HaPais CEO Adv. Beni Dreyfus, judging committee chair Dr. Ruth Calderon, Mifal HaPais board chair Itzik Lari, and 2025 Sapir Prize winner Amir Harash, awarded for “Bereavement and Failure and Zombies.

Amir Harash wins Sapir Prize for 2025; Roni Partchek takes debut award


A call to boycott Israeli literature by international authors

Among the signatories are such well-known writers as Sally Rooney, Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy, and Percival Everett.

 SALLY ROONEY

Scribing the future: Matan’s fellowship paves the way for women’s Torah literature

Matan’s Kitvuni initiative is allowing women Torah scholars to produce high-level books of Torah scholarship.

RABBANIT ADINA STERNBERG at the launch of her Kitvuni book.

Jagged wounds bleed orange rust: Family dysfunction viewed through art - review

This is a well-written, offbeat, and powerful memoir, deserving of consideration.

 CONCRETE BUILDING frames. ‘Walking in a neighborhood of seriously deteriorated concrete is as sobering an experience as watching a marriage fall apart,’ the author of ‘Dwell Time’ states.

'Making sense of God' through Norman Solomon's new book - review

Solomon’s aim is not to indoctrinate or convert but rather to provoke thought and stimulate discussion.

 A man stands under the starry sky (Illustrative)

'After Camus: A Novel': The ghost of Camus haunts an American couple

An interesting, though bizarre book, and a nod to the writings of Camus about the survival or death of love and friendship.

 GRAVESTONE OF Albert Camus, a philosopher of the absurd

The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: the Talmud and feminine dichotomy

'The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic' discusses the six women in the Talmud who are cited by name, and matches them with six paradigms of the female.

 THE AUTHOR references ‘madwoman in the attic’ from Charlotte Brontë’s Gothic-style classic ‘Jane Eyre,’ connecting her to Talmudic stories about women.

Bestselling author John Irving makes appearance at the Jerusalem Writers Festival

The author, who appeared on Zoom because he had just caught a case of COVID, had planned to attend the festival in person – and promised his interviewer to come to Israel when his health permitted.

 JOHN IRVING (on screen) is interviewed by Ari Folman this week at the Jerusalem Writers Festival at Mishkenot Sha’ananim.

Jessica Cohen: Go-to English translator of contemporary Israeli literature

In addition to being bilingual, “she has a super sensitive ear for the texts she translates, and she strives to find the right English words and the right register for each book."

 Jessica Cohen has translated more than 30 books and dozens of shorter works by some of the most renowned Israeli writers.

John Irving to attend the Jerusalem International Writers Festival

‘I was pro-Israel in 1981, and I’m not less pro-Israel now,’ says acclaimed novelist.

 John Irving

Acclaimed Jewish-American novelist Paul Auster dies at 77

Auster’s work straddles the divide between the middlebrow and the highbrow.

 US author Paul Auster poses for a photograph before an interview in Stockholm May 10, 2011.