Bernard Horn
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Bernard Horn is the author of Facing the Fires: Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua, the only book in English about Israel's pre-eminent novelist. His poems and translations have appeared in The Mississippi Review, Moment Magazine, and The New Yorker. He was awarded a Fulbright and five NEH Fellowships and is Professor of English at Framingham State College in Massachusetts.

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9/11

Posted September 11, 2005 | 03:10 PM (EST)

Two or Three Things
I am plankton.
Maurice Sendak

I'm thinking of my blistered inner
arms and my fingers ravaged
by poison ivy or maybe it is
oak this fall, on the one
hand, and, on the other, the breaking news
that Lyla...

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Judgment

Posted September 5, 2005 | 07:41 PM (EST)

Why do Europeans have Nazis on their brains when they refer to the conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs?

The British poet Tom Paulin calls Israeli Jews Nazis and his compatriot A. N. Wilson calls Israeli soldiers “the Zionist SS.” What image comes José Saramago’s mind when attacking Israeli...

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