My day job has caught up with me, as well as the shift from Jerusalem to Portland (I am a solar battery as far as my energy is concerned), and so I expect I will be posting every few weeks rather than weekly for a while. I should post next in a couple of weeks … Continue reading Light posting
Month: October 2022
Shimon Adaf’s Postmodern Fantasy, pt. 1
The Israeli writer Shimon Adaf turned 50 this summer. If no longer a wunderkind—in his 20s he had already won recognition for his first books, wrote lyrics for major Israeli rock musicians, co-founded a literary journal, and became an editor at a prominent publishing house—he remains an academic favorite (and university lecturer himself), considered by … Continue reading Shimon Adaf’s Postmodern Fantasy, pt. 1
The Jewish and not-so-Jewish Monsters of Classic Dungeons & Dragons
Anyone who played Dungeons & Dragons during its golden age from the late 1970s into the mid-1980s will know that the most nefarious villain was not, as television’s Stranger Things now has it, Demogorgon, but another demon lord. In a widely played (or at least owned) series of adventures published during this period, players were … Continue reading The Jewish and not-so-Jewish Monsters of Classic Dungeons & Dragons
Lilith Now
Lilith takes something of a hiatus from fiction for several decades after her appearance in Charles Williams’s Descent Into Hell. (See previous post.) There are exceptions, such as “Fruit of Knowledge,” a 1940 story by C. L. Moore first published in the pulp magazine Unknown.[1] Moore retells the biblical story of Eden and the Fall, … Continue reading Lilith Now
investigations and fantasies 