On Being Jewish Now: Essays and Reflections from Authors and Advocates On October 7th, 2023, Jews in Israel were attacked in the largest pogrom since the Holocaust. But Jews everywhere felt it and came together to process and to speak out in ways they never had before, like […]
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7, the term “settler colonialism” has become a center of political debate in the United States. Many progressives, academics, […]
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of […]
Israel Alone Thank you to NetGalley and Wicked Son for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred […]
Hi everyone, and thanks for stopping by on Bookish Discussion Sunday. Originally, I was planning to do a different topic, but something important came up that I wanted to encourage a discussion about. I know that there are various pockets of the bookish world, so not everyone is […]
The Boy with the Star Tattoo Thank you to William Morrow Paperbacks and Tess Day for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From the acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love […]
Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and it’s one of the first years that I can remember that I didn’t post anything on social media. I didn’t repost anything. In fact, I stayed off social media completely. I didn’t even make a blog post. Because there was a […]
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