Serge Gainsbourg, Kafka, Jewish American Literature

November 22, 2008

For the German readers: Buch Wien started two days ago. For the French readers: Salon Du Livre De Montreal is still running till 24.

Call It English The Languages of Jewish American Literature, Hana Wirth-Nesher.

From Princeton Press. Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English.

Revenge of the Domestic :Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic, Donna Harsch

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Screening Sex Reviewed in Bookforum

November 15, 2008

For those who object to the rise of pornography studies as an academic subfield or balk at paying astronomical tuition so their kids can watch people boink on-screen for course credit, Linda Williams is the one to blam

The real Kafka, warts,porn, whores and all

November 15, 2008

These are the bald facts. But Franz Kafka, the man, or better still the noun-phrase, conjures up far much more than that.

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