Click Here to Read:  Bringing Yiddish to the Negev: Rokhl’s Golden City: How poet Avrom Sutzkever became a giant in a country that rejected his language By Rokhl Kafrissen on the Tablet Magazine website on January 30, 2019.

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Click Here to Read:  The unimportance of Ernest Hemingway: why should we bother reading him anymore? He was once considered the master craftsman of American letters, but on close inspection the entire corpus is full of artistic failure by Paul Levy on the Spectator website in January 2019.

Ernest Hemingway with Lauren Becall.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A happy, healthy and hopeful New Year, everyone.  We have a delightful poetry surprise for you this morning.  Although we have featured poets who are also translators, I know that we haven’t yet had poems in Swedish.  Since this is an international website, I also know that those of you who are Swedish speakers yourselves must of course be familiar with the work of Nobel prize-winning poet, Tomas Tranströmer. His volume of selected Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: January 7, 2019

Click Here to Read:  James Baldwin’s Harlem Through a Child’s Eyes by
Gabrielle Bellot on The New York Review of Books website on Januar 3, 2019.

Click Here to Read:  Aharon Appelfeld, a Memory: One year after the death of the great writer, his humanity still shines By Natalia A. Feduschak on the Tablet website on January  4,  2019.