History

Salman Natour | from: Arabic

Keys

During the Nakba, tens of thousands of keys disappeared. Their owners have replaced the iron keys of their houses with the keys of hope. The spark of hope awoke in them the moment the bulldozers had finished demolishing their houses. Childhood memories of an Arabic poet.

Reading Time : 10min

Bruce Sterling | from: English

Dinner in Audoghast

Reading Time : 20min

T.E. Lawrence | from: English

Blowing Up Trains

From the diaries of T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia) – an episode that includes handling explosives resting by wet camels during the imperial conquests in the deserts of the Middle East.

Reading Time : 18min

Alexander Kluge | from: German

I Only Blast Under Written Orders

Reading Time : 6min

Ambrose Bierce | from: English

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

In Civil War Alabama, known for its generous execution policy, Peyton Farquhar witnesses his own death. But is there a safe place nevertheless?

Reading Time : 18min

Danilo Kiš | from: Serbian

Last Respects

The greatest writer of Ex-Yugoslavia with an extraordinary story about the funeral of a beloved prostitute; an allegory on the possibility of a revolution and the real funeral of President Tito.

Reading Time : 11min

Varlam Shalamov | from: Russian

Condensed Milk

Reading Time : 7min

Tehila Lieberman | from: English

Waltz on East 6th Street

Reading Time : 14min

Robert Louis Stevenson | from: English

Husband and Wife

From the author of “Treasure Island,” a curious look at married couples and their many forms and habits.

Reading Time : 13min

Hilary Mantel | from: English

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Can you imagine, are you even allowed to picture a scenario in which someone assassinates the leader who’s demise you were praying for? In literature you can.

Reading Time : 33min

Uri Nissan Gnessin | from: Hebrew

Uproar

A fight breaks out in a local market, disrupts the mundane everyday life of the bystanders and captures their imagination. A classic tale by the father of Hebrew modernism.

Reading Time : 20min

Itamar Orlev | from: Hebrew

Retirement Home for War Heroes, Warsaw

A young man travels from Jerusalem to Warsaw to meet his father he didn’t see for over a decade, and is staggered to find out what he actually did during the war.

Reading Time : 7min