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In October, only a fortnight after Israel sniped Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi Al-Wahidi in the neck and rendered him paraplegic, the Israeli army published a list of six journalists, accusing them of being affiliated with Hamas and “Islamic Jihad terrorists.” For over fifteen months, Anas Al-Sharif, Alaa Salama, Hossam Shabat, Ashraf Saraj, Ismail Farid, and

When I left New York City last September to live upstate with a man, I immediately began baking. The first loaf cake I made was terrible: eggy, over-mixed; its one redeeming quality was the layer of apple chunks I’d tossed in. Our rental, a rich family’s vacation cottage that we’d live in for the nine

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Welcome to Season Two of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of Editing. This season, in a series of live conversations, Merve Emre asks the smartest and savviest editors how the sausage gets made. What happens behind the scenes at a magazine? How does an idea become a book? And how do you work

On Boxing Day, in Rome, after taking a comfortable walk to the Piazza del Popolo, followed by a stroll through the Villa Borghese, and then back to the apartment, I had a fall. Article continues after advertisement Sitting at a table in Isabella’s living room with my iPad in front of me, I had just

Jews in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe may not seem to share much with colonized peoples in Egypt, India or China. They were a mostly despised minority within large European empires whereas upper-caste Hindus could credibly claim to represent a majority before their European overlords. What seems irrefutable, however, is that European Jews as much as

Amanda Peters has a gift for tracing the boundaries of time, place, and generations. Her marvel of a first novel, The Berry Pickers, was inspired by her father’s stories of summers spent traveling with his family from Nova Scotia to harvest blueberries in Maine. The Berry Pickers alternates between two narrators—Joe, a Mi’kmaq boy of