Jewcy talks to novelist Myla Goldberg.
At Tablet, Leil Leibovitz eulogizes Israeli comic actor Yosef Shiloach.
The New York Times Carpetbagger blog talks to the Coen “Boys” about “True Grit” and the Oscars.
Adam Kirsch reviews a new biography of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky.
Is Hebrew being threatened by too much translation?
Visit Khan Sharonim, a first-century stop along the Nabatean spice route.
And Joshua Cohen’s novel “Witz” (reviewed in the Forward here) is so big it can stop a bullet (kind of):