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Ari Hoffman Ari R. Hoffman is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Harvard University. He is currently a Dexter Dissertation Completion Fellow. Reviews Articles Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award Nonfiction Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy Benjamin Balint Fiction The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus: Two Novels (The Hungarian List) Gábor Schein; Adam Z. Levy and Ottilie Mulzet, trans. Fiction Between Life and Death Yoram Kaniuk; Barbara Harshav, trans. Fiction Moonglow Michael Chabon Fiction Here I Am: A Novel Jonathan Safran Foer Nonfiction Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds Reiner Stach; Kurt Beals, trans. Nonfiction Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story Matti Friedman Essay Amichai’s Jerusalem The best guide to this strange place called Jerusalem might be Yehuda Amichai, a poet whose work seems permanently suspended between the secular and sacred. Ari Hoffman December 18, 2017
Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
Fiction The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus: Two Novels (The Hungarian List) Gábor Schein; Adam Z. Levy and Ottilie Mulzet, trans.
Essay Amichai’s Jerusalem The best guide to this strange place called Jerusalem might be Yehuda Amichai, a poet whose work seems permanently suspended between the secular and sacred. Ari Hoffman December 18, 2017