“Nextbook”:http://www.nextbook.org is a sharp site we like with a fresh take on Jewish subjects. They’ve got a new “piece”:http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=1795 on Israel by Shalom Auslander that is really on the ball; be warned that that description is punningly intended. If you are familiar with his work, that may not come as a surprise.
Speaking of which, I “mentioned this”:http://emdashes.com/2008/10/new-yorker-festival-klam-leona.php during the Festival, but—Matthew Klam cited a work by Auslander in which he discusses good and evil and how they are related, as if they behaved like people, saying that “Light and Dark are buddies, and they hang out after work.” Anyone know where this comes from? (Perhaps Klam himself will let us know.) I’d like to read that.