Ghost Stories
Ruth FranklinFor people who think critically about books. An insider perspective on book publishing, writing criticism, and my biography currently in production, THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK. Also featuring an occasional group read of Israeli and Palestinian authors.
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Ghost, meet machine
For months now, I’ve been stuck on a complicated piece. I keep accumulating notes without a clear idea of how the whole thing will eventually fit together. Sitting in front of the file, which is now huge, I struggle to find my way in.
Not...
After such knowledge
The hands are taller than a person, each fingernail as big as a dinner plate. Their cast-bronze surface is wrinkled, weathered, showing that they belong to a person who has performed hard labor. They sit open, cupping the air around them, i...
Like Covid, but with missiles
On Wednesday morning, I was on my way to get a haircut in Tel Aviv when the alert of an imminent missile attack sounded on my phone.
One of the first things you’re told when arriving in Israel is to download the official Homefront Command...
Teacups and ICE
A friend sent me an email yesterday with this image:
Another friend, who lives in Minneapolis, posted on Facebook an agonized meditation on how she now no longer knows whether she would be a “good German,” because she’s not sure she would...
Empty and aching
I wake up in the middle of the night with the Simon & Garfunkel song “America” in my head. “Let us be lovers / we’ll marry our fortunes together …”
More than any other song I know, this one captures the feeling of the road trip, that quin...
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I'm a book critic and the author of THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK and SHIRLEY JACKSON: A RATHER HAUNTED LIFE. I write about books, biography, and writing.
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