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Email Print Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai By Matti Friedman (Spiegel & Grau) Shortly after the Yom Kippur War broke out on October 6, 1973, 39-year-old Leonard Cohen left his wife and infant son on the tiny Greek island of Hydra and finagled a flight to Tel Aviv, intending to pick oranges on a kibbutz.
A few of the precise and often startling stories in Iddo Gefen’s excellent debut collection may remind some readers of Etgar Keret’s whimsical approach to life’s absurdities, but Gefen’s voice is assuredly unique among younger Israeli writers whose short stories often seem to contain the deep emotional complexities of entire novels.
LOS ANGELES — Clad in a vintage 1960s dark suit, white shirt, and thin tie, Gideon Marcus looks as if he stepped off the set of the TV series “Mad Men.” He assures a full room of science fiction and fantasy fans that 1965 is a pretty neat time to be alive. The music is good, he says, gas costs 25 cents a gallon, the United States is proceeding apace with its Mercury launches, and TV is transitioning from black and white to color.
For many people in Asia, the Holocaust is not a commonly studied piece of history. Most don’t know about it, and those inclined to learn more are hard put to do so in their native languages. Which is why the recent debut of “Helena Citrónová” by Bangkok’s Opera Siam was such a revelatory event.
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