Benjamin Balint, a writer and translator living in Jerusalem, has taught humanities in the Bard College program at Al-Quds University. He is the author of Running Commentary (PublicAffairs, 2010) and Kafka’s Last Trial (W. W. Norton), which is forthcoming in the fall.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Long, Inescapable Tail of Terrorism
Benjamin Balint revels in the elegant gravity of Wendell Steavenson’s “Paris Metro.”...
Intercultural Influences: On German Literature and Islam
Benjamin Balint reviews Navid Kermani’s “Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities.”...
Disjecta Membra: Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole's "Sacred Trash"
Wading waist-deep into this hoard of history, smothered in the dust of centuries — he called it "genizaschmutz" — Schechter sifted for four weeks....
Flesh and Blood: David Grossman's "To the End of the Land"
ON AUGUST 12, 2006, in the waning hours of the second Lebanon war, Israeli Staff Sgt. Uri Grossman, still a couple ...
