For Amos Oz, the real Israel was cherishable precisely because it was not a high ideal but a fact achieved only by labor and compromise

The acclaimed Israeli writer and peace activist has passed away from cancer, his daughter announced on social media

The author just won the Israel Prize for his lifetime achievement in literature. But the story of his life is one of downfall.

The great Jewish writer on his linguistic and literary heritage, the Bohemian way, and the catastrophic modern break between Jews old and new

In the ‘cosmic and frightening’ Sapir Prize-winning The Ruined House, by Israeli expatriate Ruby Namdar, the secular modern world and the ancient divine mysteries coexist

Finally out in English, Orly Castel-Bloom’s ‘An Egyptian Novel’ is a manual for living with defeat

The writer’s new collection of personal essays and newspaper columns will make you laugh until you cry

Israeli novelist Orly Castel-Bloom’s latest book, her best yet, is a darkly funny tale of coming to terms with despair

First time the literary honor has been awarded to a non-Israel resident

With his newly translated novel ‘The Hilltop,’ Assaf Gavron stakes his claim to be Israel’s Jonathan Franzen

A new staging of ‘Salt of the Earth’ hints at a resurgence of the Canaanite movement’s anti-dystopian, anti-Zionist liberal vision

Israeli Arab writer Sayed Kashua is moving to Chicago with his family

After tragedy, Dvora Omer found flaws, beauty in the nation’s founding figures, turning them into literary heroes

Celebrating Israel’s only Nobel literature laureate