With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his “vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America” (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its...
Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did — and did not — happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful...