The Internet has been abuzz with appreciations for Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who died earlier this month. I haven't known quite what to think about the outpouring, or about Darwish and his work. Which is why I am especially grateful for Rachel Barenblat's eloquent and even-handed take on his passing and his poetry.
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The Jewish Week describes how "a crop of emerging women writers and artists is teasing out fresh interpretations from traditional Jewish texts."
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Nextbook profiles Maya Arad, an Israeli writer living in the United States.
August 18, 2008
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