For a Jewish reporter with Eastern European roots, one of the hardest challenges covering the war is reconciling the horrors of the Holocaust with the Poland and Ukraine of today. By Jeffrey Gettleman ...
Often we look to find ourselves, to learn from our forebears who we are. If that past--unreliable at best--is unavailable, we may have to use our imaginations to reconstruct it. This is the dilemma ...
The text was repeated four times around the circle, visible from any perspective inside, and appearing backwards from outside the curtain. LONDON — I thought I was going to see Jonathan Safran Foer ...
Jonathan Safran Foer has sliced the price of his notable Boerum Hill townhouse, on the market since May, from $10.495 million to $8.65 million (hat tip to Curbed). That puts it well under the magic ...
The discussion will be moderated by Antonio Monda, the Artistic Director of the Le Conversazioni literary festival. The talk begins at 7 pm, and tickets can be purchased here. The cost is $20 for ...
What would it sound like if a foreigner wrote a novel in broken English? Foer answers this question to marvelous effect in his inspired though uneven first novel. Much of the book is narrated by ...
To a world that, despite his best-selling books and major movies of the millennium’s first decade, had moved on without him, Jonathan Safran Foer has recently announced, “Here I Am.” In 2002, when ...