PEOPLE — novelists even — have been heard to say of Muriel Spark that she is gifted and elegant, but a fantasist, a trifler. This at any rate allows one to see why the old topic of the death of the ...
The Mandelbaum Gate in Jerusalem, which served as the official point of entry and departure between Jordan-held Old Jerusalem and Israel in the 19 years between the Israeli War of Independence and the ...
Sixty years ago this summer, Adolf Eichmann stood trial in Israel for his role in the Holocaust. Although Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, which famously (or notoriously) explores the “banality ...