The 7 February 2013 issue of The New York Review of Books has a book review essay by Avishai Margalit, a contemporary of the Israeli novelist-cum-memoirist Amos Oz, of the English translation of Hadara Lazar's Out of Palestine: The Making of Modern Israel (originally published in Hebrew in 1990 as The Mandatorians: The Land of Israel 1940-1948; ( Read more... )

I still haven't read any of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), but, what with the 23 December release of the U.S. movie adaptation of the first book, directed by David Fincher (Alien 3, se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin ( Read more... )

For various reasons, my updates to my LJ fell way off in 2010. Given that some of those reasons were (a) my desktop blowing up and getting (semi-) resurrected; (b) a dodgy internet connection at home; and (c) dodgy electrical power at home (seriously, DTE, WTF?!), I should be devoutly thankful that I don't telecommute and/or take classes on-line ( Read more... )