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Benjamin Balint

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.

The Long, Inescapable Tail of Terrorism

Benjamin Balint revels in the elegant gravity of Wendell Steavenson’s “Paris Metro.”...

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AROUND THE WORLD

FICTION

Intercultural Influences: On German Literature and Islam

Benjamin Balint reviews Navid Kermani’s “Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities.”...

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RELIGION

LITERARY CRITICISM

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....

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NONFICTION

HISTORY

CULTURAL STUDIES

Los Angeles Review of Books

Flesh and Blood: David Grossman's "To the End of the Land"

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FICTION

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