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Tag: Publishing

0 Culture Sports

It’s a goal! Father and son find success with creation of football board game

Jewish Chronicle · 13 Nov

Jon and Mason Sloneem, a father-son duo, have successfully merged their love for football and board games into a popular creation called "The Game of Two Halves."

0 Culture Politics

Sally Rooney’s Literary Mob

Lionel Shriver in The Free Press · 28 Oct

Lionel Shriver critiques the recent trend of literary figures, like Sally Rooney, participating in boycotts against the Israeli publishing industry, highlighting the potential self-destructive nature of such actions for writers.

0 Culture Politics

Ad for Israel Book Canceled Because ‘Customers Might Complain’

Francesca Block in The Free Press · 23 Oct

The advertising controversy involving Bernard-Henri Lévy's book 'Israel Alone,' which was declined by trade publication Shelf Awareness due to the title's potential to upset readers, has raised concerns about self-censorship and antisemitic undertones in the publishing industry.

0 Politics Culture

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why He Wrote about Palestine and Israel

Peter Beinart in The Beinart Notebook · 20 Oct

Ta-Nehisi Coates, renowned author and journalist, discusses his latest work, "The Message," which explores his experiences in Palestine, Israel, Senegal, and South Carolina.

0 Culture Politics

The championing of Ta-Nehisi Coates exposes the media’s gross bias

Jewish Chronicle · 15 Oct

Amidst the release of Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book "The Message," which controversially critiques Israel by equating its treatment of Palestinians to the Jim Crow laws, media biases have come to the forefront.

0 Literature History

What Is an Editor?

Elroy Rosenberg in Tablet · 21 May

An editor, as described by Joan Didion and Robert Gottlieb, plays a crucial yet ambiguous role in helping writers shape their ideas and achieve their goals.

0 Literature Politics

No Fans, Only Poems

Bonjour Chai · 12 Apr

The episode explores the controversy around the resignation of Guernica's editor, Jina Moore, following backlash over an essay by Israeli writer Joanna Chen, resulting in discussions about safe spaces for Jewish writers.

0 Culture Politics

Shaken, Not Schnorred: Ep. 405

Unorthodox · 28 Mar

Unorthodox unpacks current Jewish cultural moments with lively discussions about Purim festivities, anti-Semitic book reviews, and a new potential Jewish James Bond.

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Altie Karper: When a Book Is Banned [Censorship 1/3]

18forty · 1 Jun 2021

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, Altie Karper, editorial director of Schocken Books, discusses censorship and cancel culture.

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Altie Karper: When a Book Is Banned [Censorship 1/3]

18forty · 1 Jun 2021

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, Altie Karper, editorial director of Schocken Books, discusses censorship and cancel culture.

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Working One’s Way Out

Hillel Halkin in Jewish Review of Books · 3 Jan 2021

Winter Vigil is a memoir written by Steve Kogan that was published posthumously by his widow, Carol Rusoff.

0 Antisemitism Politics

Amazon Continues To Sell White-Supremacist Propaganda

Forward · 10 Jul 2018

Amazon is under scrutiny for continuing to sell merchandise that includes white supremacist symbols, despite policies against promoting hate.