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Kenneth Wain conjures up imagined situations. Biographical notes and history are woven into an imaginative tapestry

By positioning October 7 as Israel’s Ground Zero, Hamas’s assault becomes the self-evident point of origin of the current conflict in Gaza and the obligatory reference point for all critical analysis and moral judgment regarding subsequent events. No matter what Israel does, any criticism of Operation Swords of Iron is forestalled by this eternal return of the ever-same.

The awards celebrate outstanding Jewish writing by Canadian authors.

The winners of the ninth Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced. This is the first year the Irving Abella Award in History is presented. Michael Posner is the winner of a special achievement award for his trilogy of books on Leonard Cohen. The awards ceremony will take place on October 15 at York University.

SOARING energy costs have crippled households recently but thanks to changes to his home, Derek Sayer’s bills work out at as little as £1.50 a day

The Prague Spring was in many ways an attempt by middle-aged men to explain away their enthusiastic support, as young communist intellectuals, for the te...

The Prague Spring was in many ways an attempt by middle-aged men to explain away their enthusiastic support, as young communist intellectuals, for the te...

Alena Dvořáková at the Dublin Review of Books: Postcards from Absurdistan is the third volume in a ‘loose trilogy of cultural histories’ in which Derek

David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state.

Interwar Prague was an avant-garde hotbed, but the first exhibition of Czech art to take place at New York’s Museum of Modern Art was not devoted to Czech modernism.