The Invention of the Jewish People is a bold and ambitious new book in which Shlomo Sand presents his point of view that the Israeli national myth had its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times – when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order [...]

Music takes on a new guise in a compelling story of fantastic times when Renaissance composer Geusaldo lived a life suffused with scandal. Glenn Watkins’s vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, withcraft and muder in The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth and Memory is not only about art and the artist but also the influence of [...]

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