![]() ![]() “I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians” is a reenactment the quotation marks are part of its title, suggesting just how meta this film becomes. It took me more than 30 years to figure out that I’d been trolled by Roald Dahl. There’s nothing quite like the realization that what you thought was an empowering work of art is actually a 200-page exercise in trolling. I would never have said this ten years ago, or even five years ago, but there apparently comes a time in the lives of those who write about Jewish identity when they have to decide whether to write about. Horn joined JRB editor Abraham Socher for a conversation on October 14, and you can watch it now. ![]() Prizewinning novelist Dara Horn has a new book of essays out, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. The Allure of Dead Jews: A Conversation with Dara Horn ![]() And yet this new collection of Singer’s essays, reminds us that he was not only a great storyteller, but a great champion of the importance of stories for art and for life. The basic recipe of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s later novels called for a guy with two wives or lovers who ping-pongs between them for a couple of hundred pages and then runs away. ![]()
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