Topic: Everything Is Illuminated

Eating Animals

Spurred by the birth of his son, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer investigates the system that puts meat on our plates.

Better to be a late-bloomer or a wunderkind?

Review: 'Operation Filmmaker'

Documentary about an Iraqi film student sidesteps the fairy-tale scenario.

In literature, too, an Israeli-Palestinian split

Two first-time literary festivals – one Israeli, one Palestinian – coincided without a nod to the other, creating one more divide in a troubled land.