Book of the Week 30 April 2025
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman This short novel unfolds over a single night at a dingy comedy club in Netanya, as a comedian’s final performance veers into something raw and unsettling. In the dance between comic and audience, the life of the stand-up comic begins to take shape, full of guilt, […]
Book of the Week 26 March 2025
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin Part novel, part memoir, part travelogue, this rediscovered cult classic imagines the ill-fated summer spent by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife at Baden for their honeymoon, the famous German spa town. Written by Soviet Jewish writer Leonid Tsypkin, this is a book that invents its own genre, described as a […]