![]() Melbourne Jewish Book Week ran a thrilling online event with local writer Mark Baker interviewing McCann.Īrnold Zable’s The Watermill covers stories ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Zable’s quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, and the ever-recurring search to belong.įavel Parrett’s There Was Still Love was shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize and recently won the Indie Book of the Year Award. □Īpeirogon, the new novel by acclaimed author Colum McCann, could take place anywhere, yet is also essentially, and painfully, Israeli-Palestinian. Jenny Slate’s Little Weirds was published just weeks after her Netflix special Stage Fright debuted, echoing central themes from her stand-up including anxiety and vulnerability. Hmmm, that doesn’t sound very Jewish to us. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the perfect time to choose a book to devour and we're making it easy for you with this pretty hot list from 5780.įrom the people of the book, there's lots to choose from. ![]() If there was ever a time to slow down, disconnect from the world, turn inwards, and turn off the devices - it's now. ![]()
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