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Turning discarded books into memory

Israeli artist Lahav Barak crafts forgotten books into living art

ynet Global | 02.25.26

Why are extremists unhappy? These are Maimonides' secrets to a good life

Author Jeffrey Katz was a classic New York lawyer, but a chance encounter with a book by Maimonides changed his life, and now he wants you to change too: 'Any person can mold themselves into any kind of person they want to be'

Yaniv Pohoryles | 02.13.26

'There are times it’s unhealthy to remember': novelist Kazuo Ishiguro on war, trauma and recovery

Childhood in the shadow of the atomic bomb, life between cultures and a career shaped by memory and forgetting: Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro reflects on postwar Japan, Israel after Oct. 7 and why 'living too much in the past can destroy a nation’s future'

Amir Kaminer, Cannes | 02.06.26

Salman Rushdie returns to public life as ‘Knife’ premieres at Sundance

The author joins Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney at Sundance to discuss the 2022 knife attack, the legacy of the 1989 fatwa and how culture, journalism and art remain targets of authoritarian and religious extremism

Amir Bogen | 01.31.26

Only after he died did she learned he was her father: a writer confronts a hidden past

Raised by a single mother, Noa Schwartz discovered a lifelong family secret only in adulthood; in her debut book, she writes letters to the father she never knew, using literature to process grief, anger and questions of identity

Zipporah Roman | 01.15.26

Little Edna’s War, by Janet Bond Brill, PhD

‘Little Edna’s War’ reveals Jewish child’s survival and resistance during the Holocaust

Based on survivor testimony, the new memoir tells the true story of a Jewish girl who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto, joined the Polish Resistance as a child and survived the Holocaust

ynet Global | 01.13.26

Emily Henry’s bestselling romances are Netflix’s next big hit

Best friends on a disastrous getaway, exes pretending to still be in love and a revenge rom-com between two betrayed hearts; five novels by romance powerhouse Emily Henry are heading to film and TV; who’s involved and when is it coming?

Omer Tessel | 01.08.26

Rare Jewish books, including Talmud volume, recovered in Poland after surfacing online

Early 20th-century Hebrew and Yiddish texts, possibly looted during the Holocaust, returned to Jewish institutions after Warsaw police traced them from auction sites to a private collector

Itamar Eichner | 01.02.26

Dark and joyless: why the Wicked novel is nothing like the hit film

Long before the musical and Universal’s films, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel was riddled with contradictions and weighed down by dull debates; its bleak, divided world lacked the color and magic that turned the screen adaptation into a global hit

Mor Fogelman-Dvorkin | 12.26.25

Spines introduces AI-powered voice cloning feature for audiobook production

Venture capitalist Michael Eisenberg, a backer of Spines through Aleph, tested its AI voice cloning on his upcoming book - his wife couldn’t tell it wasn’t him

ynet Global | 12.24.25

Pippi Longstocking turns 80 and still teaches kids how to be free

Eight decades after her debut, Pippi Longstocking remains a symbol of freedom, kindness and cheeky rebellion; a special project revisits Astrid Lindgren’s classic through the eyes of Israeli writers and illustrators who redraw the fearless girl for today

Yehuda Atlas | 12.06.25

תחריט גרמני מהמאה ה-19 שבו נראה שייקספיר כאיש משפחה מוקף באשתו אן ובילדיו, המקשיבים לסיפוריו

The hidden life of Shakespeare: the son he lost and the marriage history forgot

The death of Hamnet, Shakespeare’s son, left little trace in history, as did his wife, Agnes; now, a bestselling novel and a new film by Oscar-winning Chloé Zhao revive the family tragedy that shaped his work and restore Agnes to the spotlight

Smadar Shiloni | 12.06.25

חן דפסמס וחמותה אור־אל מאור. פירגון הדדי

‘My husband was embarrassed’: Two women in one family publish erotic books and break taboos together

Chen Defsames and her mother-in-law Or-El Maor describe how writing erotica became a shared path and how their families reacted; ‘stop shaming everything connected to erotica’

Yael Garty | 12.03.25

'You think you’ve reached the bottom, and then it goes deeper': The ghostwriter of Israel’s hostage stories speaks

Eli Halifa, the ghostwriter behind harrowing testimonies of October 7 heroes and returned hostages, describes the burden of holding others’ pain as he pieces together lives marked by courage, loss and survival — and the moment the stories broke him too

Smadar Shiloni | 11.24.25

Woody Allen’s debut novel What's With Baum? is shallow, neurotic, occasionally funny

In What's With Baum?, Woody Allen returns to his familiar neurotic, narcissistic New Yorker — a self-absorbed intellectual with no self-awareness; at 90, Allen continues his self-referential storytelling, equal parts charming and cringeworthy

Navit Barel | 11.15.25

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