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Tablet Daniel Silva and the Art of the Beach Read 20 Aug 2018
Daniel Silva's latest book, "The Other Woman," featuring Israeli intelligence officer Gabriel Allon, is described as a quintessential beach read, designed to...
20 Aug 2018
Tablet Of Jews and Gentlemen 10 Aug 2018
In the 1947 film "Gentleman's Agreement," directed by Elia Kazan and starring Gregory Peck, a gentile journalist adopts a Jewish identity to expose the preva...
10 Aug 2018
Tablet Bookworm’s Beach Reads! 6 Aug 2018
The article discusses the significance of books in marking time periods and recommends three novels as beach reads for the summer. "Fear of Flying" by Erica ...
6 Aug 2018
Tablet What to Watch This Weekend: ‘M’ 3 Aug 2018
"M" directed by Fritz Lang is a psychological thriller that delves into the chilling narrative of a child murderer in a small German town. The film provides ...
3 Aug 2018
Tablet What to Watch This Weekend: ‘Stalag 17’ 27 Jul 2018
"Stalag 17," a classic film directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, tells the story of American air force soldiers in a German prison camp duri...
27 Jul 2018
Tablet Keith Gessen’s ‘A Terrible Country’ Is Pretty Great 23 Jul 2018
Keith Gessen's novel "A Terrible Country" delves into the life of Andrei, a Russian-American academic returning to Moscow to care for his grandmother, explor...
23 Jul 2018
Tablet What to Watch This Weekend: ‘Morituri’ 20 Jul 2018
"Morituri" is a lesser-known film from Marlon Brando's career where he plays a German engineer during World War II coerced by British intelligence into a spy...
20 Jul 2018
Tablet What to Watch This Weekend: ‘The Stranger’ 13 Jul 2018
Orson Welles' 1946 film "The Stranger" is a classic noir thriller that delves into post-war paranoia by portraying a former Nazi hiding in an American town. ...
13 Jul 2018
Tablet ‘Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins’ Is the True Story of Hanukkah 18 Dec 2017
"Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins" challenges the idea of a singular, canonical Hanukkah story by introducing goblins and magical elements into the narrative...
18 Dec 2017
Tablet You Don’t Have to Write Like This 20 Nov 2017
"You Don't Have to Live Like This" by Benjamin Markovits is critiqued as a mediocre novel that fails to deliver on its potential. The book is described as la...
20 Nov 2017