David Grossman

Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of today’s best writers and artists, along with introducing new talent, to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of culture and politics. This inaugural issue of Liberties includes: Michael Ignatieff on liberalism and the environment; Laura Kipnis cheers transgression; David Grossman on literature and peace; Ramachandra Guha on the Indian tragedy; Thomas Chatterton Williams on the real James Baldwin; Mark Lilla on the power of indifference; Helen Vendler on Yeats' The Second Coming; Sean Wilentz on abolition and American origins; Adam Zagajeweski on Gustav Mahler; James Wolcott on America’s modern Jacobins; Andrea Marcolongo on how language defines us; Eli Lake on the birth of American unexceptionalism; Sally Satel on the riddle of addiction; Moshe Halbertal on creating a democratic Jewish state; David Thomson on the wonder of Terrence Malick; Julius Margolin’s memoir confronting hatred; Clara Collier on plague literature; Shawn McCreesh’s personal look at a youthful community of addiction; new poetry from the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Louise Glück, Joshua Bennett, and Hannah Sullivan; and, Leon Wieseltier (editor) and Celeste Marcus (managing editor).

A poignant and beautiful picture book celebrating the love between a grandfather and his grandchild, from Man Booker Award-winning author David Grossman. In this touching story, a little boy who likes to draw asks his beloved grandfather about his wrinkles: when and how did he get them? Grandpa explains that every one of his wrinkles has a story, some are happy and some are sad - and each story he tells becomes an illustrated journey through his life. Every Wrinkle has a Story encourages young children to ask questions about wrinkles, with a beautifully told and illustrated multigenerational tale.

"Loshad zakhodit v bar" - eto trogatelnoe issledovanie togo, kak ljudi protivostojat clozhnym zhiznennym peripetijam s pomoschju ostrogo slova. Za etot roman David Grossman byl udostoen Mezhdunarodnoj Bukerovskoj premii. Eto monolog, polnyj nepomernogo talanta. Roman-dinamit, napominajuschij pervye stendapy, kotorye zapominajutsja, stanovjatsja pritchej vo jazytsekh i pokazyvajut nastojaschij literaturnyj master-klass.

We know David Grossman's voice of ringing moral clarity from way back: since the late 1980s and The Yellow Wind, his classic work on the urgency of the two-state solution and the price paid by both occupier and occupied, he has been criticizing his country's government and pushing for paths to a lasting peace. Just after October 7th, 2023, he retreated inwards to ask himself anew these difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation: How could this massacre have happened? How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, have failed to protect its citizens? And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it the last hope of a two-state solution? In these eleven essays, which appeared in newspapers and journals at key moments when Grossman wanted to hold the government to account, he traces the failures leading up to that day and the ensuing war, enabled and abetted by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought on both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who want to live in peace and equality with their neighbors. He asks what the meaning and purpose of a Jewish state can be, when the core values of Judaism, with its reverence for the dignity of each human life, are cast aside, and how his people, so accustomed throughout history to being in the minority, have not proved able to exist as a majority with the dignity and humanity that the job demands. Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?

"Sobaka mchitsja po ulitsam, a za nej toropitsja malchishka" - tak nachinaetsja etot uvlekatelnejshij, iskrennij i trogatelnyj roman, izdannyj na mnozhestve jazykov i stavshij mirovym bestsellerom. Itak, malchik bezhit vsled za sobakoj po ulitsam Ierusalima. Emu nado razyskat ee khozjaina i vruchit emu uvedomlenie o shtrafe.Tak nachalos prikljuchenie Asafa, kotoroe mozhet proizojti tolko v shestnadtsat let. Sobaka po imeni Dinka privodit ego v samye raznye mesta: v pitstseriju, v grecheskij monastyr, v narkomanskij priton.No Tamar, khozjajki sobaki, nigde net - ischezla, kak v vodu kanula. Asaf khochet najti ee vo chto by to ni stalo i gotov na vse radi etogo. My stanem svideteljami neskolkikh dnej iz zhizni etogo iskrennego, otkrytogo i trogatelnogo malchishki, dnej, kotorye dali emu vozmozhnost uznat bolshe o ljudjakh, o zhizni, a glavnoe - o samom sebe.

David Grossman har i många år skrivit om Israel och Palestina i internationella tidskrifter. I denna volym har han samlat några av de texter som är relevanta för regionen idag. Terrorattacken 7 oktober ställde konflikten på sin spets och efter att den första chocken lagt sig var David Grossman tvungen att ställa de nödvändiga och smärtsamma frågorna: Hur kunde den här massakern ske på israelisk mark? Varför har Netanyahus skandalomsusade regering glömt bort Gaza och palestinierna? Och “vilka kommer vi israeler vara när vi reser oss ur askan av denna tragedi?”I tio essäer skissar Grossman förhistorien till den 7 oktober som en serie av katastrofala beslut tagna av en nationalistisk regering vars enda fokus varit att behålla makten och för vilken språk, kultur och tankefrihet inte längre är obestridliga värden. Slutligen ställer Grossman den allra viktigaste frågan: Är det ens möjligt att föreställa sig en tillvaro sida vid sida efter dessa fruktansvärda händelser?

*Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature*A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person’s soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a day marking the biggest loss of Jewish life in this century, he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation:How could this massacre have happened?How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens?And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution?In eleven essays David Grossman traces the years leading up to that day and the ensuing war through a string of failures by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought on both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who simply want to live in peace.Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?

A poignant and beautiful picture book celebrating the love between a grandfather and his grandchild, from Man Booker Award-winning author David Grossman. In this touching story, a little boy who likes to draw asks his beloved grandfather about his wrinkles: when and how did he get them? Grandpa explains that every one of his wrinkles has a story, some are happy and some are sad - and each story he tells becomes an illustrated journey through his life. Every Wrinkle has a Story encourages young children to ask questions about wrinkles, with a beautifully told and illustrated multigenerational tale.

Every Tuesday, Yotam's grandfather takes him to a coffee shop after kindergarten, where Grandpa Amnon drinks coffee and Yotam likes to draw. One day, Yotam has a question: "Grandpa, what's on your face?" Grandpa Amnon explains that the lines on his face are wrinkles, and they are something that grownups get. He tells Yotam the stories of how he got each of his wrinkles. Some reasons for Grandpa's wrinkles are sad, like when Grandma Dina was sick. But some reasons are happy, like the wrinkle Grandpa got when Yotam was born. Yotam looks closely at the circles and lines on Grandpa's face, thinks hard ... and then expresses what he's just learned about the beauty of aging in his own special way. Every Wrinkle Has a Story is a pro-aging story of curiosity, intergenerational storytelling and quiet contemplation through artwork. Key Text Features illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.