After the Golden Age

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>What's obsessing Jewish American writers today?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Younger writers were freed to think about specifically Jewish questions. [Their] work has a narrower appeal. Only time will tell if it is also a deeper one. -Adam Kirsch</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After the Golden Age</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> examines the current generation of leading American Jewish writers as they grapple with questions about religion Israel politics and multiculturalism. In a ground-breaking essay one of America's foremost literary critics </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Adam Kirsch</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> shows how a new wave of writers including Jonathan Safran Foer Nicole Krauss and Joshua Cohen is charting and creating a modern Jewish world that is different from that of Roth Bellow and Malamud.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The issue also includes a report by </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Kaya Gen��</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> on paranoia and conspiracy theories in Erdo��an's Turkey Jo Glanville on the vanishing Jews of Dublin and a colourful portrait from </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Patrick Mackie</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> of Mozart's Jewish librettist. </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Sarah Krasnostein</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> delves into the extraordinary feats of the enemy aliens shipped from Britain to Australia in 1940 and </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>George Prochnik</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> explores the worlds of W.G. Sebald and Daniel Mendelsohn.</span></p>