The men and women commanding the over-all campaign are smart and committed and self-questioning.

NEWYORKER: After America

Bland and brazen self-satisfaction takes the place of self-questioning invention.

NEWYORKER: Movies

Mr Grossman's imagination is secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

Mr. PETER STEIN (San Francisco Jewish Film Festival): There's a sense that Jewish life throughout the world is under siege, Israel as a nation is under siege, but what is really remarkable about Jewish culture is the insistence on self-questioning.

NPR: Israeli Director Deconstructs a Troubled House

Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.

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