Film Criticism is doing better than ever, according to Roger Ebert.
Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award include novelists David Grossman for “To the End of the Land” and Hans Keilson for “Comedy in a Minor Key”; Christopher Hitchens for his autobiography “Catch 22”; Tom Segev for his biography of Simon Wiesenthal, and Forward contributor Susie Linfield for “Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence.”
Tullia Zevi, a longtime leader of Italian Jewry, has died at age 91.
Young Isrealis just love Berlin, according to Der Spiegel.
Today is 50 years since Bob Dylan arrived in New York City.
Forward contributor Mark Oppenheimer writes in Slate about his life-long recovery from snobbery.
Sacha Baron Cohen is set to star in a movie, apparently based on the novel “Zabibah and The King” by Saddam Hussein.
On a more serious note, to whom should the Iraqi Jewish Archive belong?
Vox Tablet profiles classical music star Simone Dinnerstein.
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