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Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
by Karthika Naïr
September 24, 2020 issue
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David Shulman’s Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills was published in 2018. He is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was awarded the Israel Prize for Religious Studies in 2016. (September 2020)
The Widows’ Laments
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata
by Karthika Naïr
September 24, 2020 issue
Buddhist Baedekers
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism
by Eric Huntington
Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment
an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, April 27–August 18, 2019; and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, January 17–April 19, 2020
March 26, 2020 issue
Waiting for the Perfect Word
Journeys: A Poet’s Diary
by A.K. Ramanujan, edited by Krishna Ramanujan and Guillermo Rodríguez
The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems
edited and translated from the Tamil by A.K. Ramanujan
September 26, 2019 issue
The Last of the Tzaddiks
What is a decent human being supposed to do in the face of devastating threats to human dignity and basic human rights?
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
by James Loeffler
The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights
by Michael Sfard, translated from the Hebrew by Maya Johnston
June 28, 2018 issue
A Hero in His Own Words
Shimon Peres’s ‘No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel’
No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel
by Shimon Peres
December 7, 2017 issue
Israel’s Irrational Rationality
The country I came to live in fifty years ago was utterly unlike the one I live in today.
The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East
by Guy Laron
The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
by Nathan Thrall
In Search of Modern Palestinian Nationhood
by Matti Steinberg
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict
by Gershon Shafir
June 22, 2017 issue
Israel: The Broken Silence
Israeli human rights activists are under attack
Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance
by Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby
Return: A Palestinian Memoir
by Ghada Karmi
Disturbing the Peace: The Use of Criminal Law to Limit the Actions of Human Rights Defenders in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
by the Human Rights Defenders Fund
Al pi tehom [At the Edge of the Abyss]
by Talia Sasson
The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
by Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh
This Place
April 7, 2016 issue
At the Heart of Hinduism
Ardor
by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
January 8, 2015 issue
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