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A few months back I heard Nathan Englander talk about his new Israel novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, and concluded that it was not very serious as a political commentary. Then a friend wrote to tell me the novel is subversive. It’s incredibly anti-Israel while also being sympathetic. But the most sympathetic […]
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Englander’s new novel is high entertainment, with a grim view of Israel
February 11th, 2018 
Awake Goy Nathan Englander, author of new Israel thriller, wants ‘as many passports as I can get’
September 10th, 2017 Awake Goy I’m very interested in how American Jewish novelists deal with Israel in crisis, so this is a good season for me. Three big hitters have come up to the plate. Last month Nicole Krauss published a novel set in Israel called Forest Dark, of which she said: It’s impossible to write about Israel without writing […]
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