Politics

Adam Thirlwell

2003

No, Moshe was not a serious Jewish boy. He was not committed to the history of the Jewish people. If he were asked to locate Tel Aviv on a map of Israel, I am not sure that Moshe could have done it.

I have a simple theory about nationality too. Like romance, nationality does not exist. In fact, nationality is a romance.

Occasionally Moshe enjoyed…

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Adam Thirlwell

b. 1978

Novelist Adam Thirlwell grew up in London and is a fellow of All Souls College in Oxford. He serves as assistant editor of Areté magazine. Thirlwell received a Somerset Maugham Award in 2008 and was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty Best Young British Novelists.

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