This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
ILLUSTRATION: BARA SAPIR; BELLOW PHOTO: NANCY CRAMPTON
By Ezra Glinter October 29, 2010
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Ron Dicker goes to see “Precious Life,” a documentary that was transformed in the making from a sentimental heart-tugger to a more complicated moral maneuver.
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Asaf Hanuka goes grocery shopping in “The Two States of Israel.”
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Philologos talks italics.
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Mark Cohen reads through all 708 of Saul Bellow’s witty and malicious letters included in a new collection.
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Jay Michaelson wonders whether egalitarian services offer more than the right to be equally bored.
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On The Sisterhood, Eryn Loeb talks to author and editor Kate Bernheimer about modern-day fairy tales.
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At ZEEK, Joanna Steinhardt talks tough about the Jewish gangster character-type.
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