Escaping the Past?
In her introduction to her story “Kafka in Bronteland” which concludes our anthology Kafkaesque, Tamar Yellin writes: “For years I could not read Kafka. I would get to the bottom of the first page of...
View ArticleRecasting a Classic
Francesca Segal’s novel The Innocents is now available. I would never have set out to recast a classic, Pulitzer-winning American novel– it seemed the height of chutzpah. But once the idea took up...
View ArticleWho Are Your Characters Really?
It’s amazing how many North Londoners have taken me aside in a furtive, conspiratorial kind of manner, in order to ask me for the truth. ‘Go on,’ a new acquaintance might urge, within moments of our...
View ArticleA Glimpse into the English Charedi School System
The school was on a residential street in North West London. From the outside it was unremarkable, but the atmosphere as I crossed the threshold for the first time for an interview to become an English...
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