Toby Lichtig
Reviewing the Situation
Novelists from conflict zones face a difficult choice: engage with the local situation at the risk of letting political specificity subsume literary possibility, or ignore it at the cost of seeming to deny the urgent truths around you. Israeli authors are perhaps more burdened than most. To be a fiction writer in Israel is almost always to have a political voice, and often to have a newspaper column too: writers in the country are trusted far more than politicians, and it is to the country’s great authors that the public (or at least the left-wing public) turns for comment on the latest atrocity.
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