Hannah Glickstein

The Loss of Bubbe

Please have a read of my new story, out today in Jewish Fiction. While struggling to talk to his teenage son, a man whose grandmother survived the Holocaust begins to understand that losing his grandmother still affects him constantly.
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Neil Oliver interviews conspiracy theorist who claimed ‘Jewish mob’ run the world - The Jewish Chronicle The GB News host shared a video online that had been blocked by YouTube

Private Eye reports this month how Neil Oliver and Ivor Cummins spouted anti-Semitic vitriol on Oliver's recent 'online only' GB News show. Oliver's done this before - see JC. Oliver's still employed at GB News, boasting they 'stand up for something'. For what? Nazis?
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Philip Roth E-Mails on Trump In 2004, the writer published “The Plot Against America,” about an election that upends the country. Has it happened here?

"Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of 77 words that is better called Jerkish than English,"

Philip Roth on Trump - The New Yorker, 2017

Alexei Navalny embodied and died for a Russian hope that relies on Christian faith - Catholic Herald Alexei Navalny – like Alexander Solzhenitsyn – was schooled in atheism. But – also like Solzhenitsyn – Navalny was influenced and baptised during childhood by religious grandparents. Navalny become a ...

According to the Guardian, 'several hundred people gathered.. on Sunday' at the grave of Alexei Navalny. There is a message of hope in the actions of these mourners, despite the risk of serious consequences.
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‘…on those days when you are at odds with your neighbours you are really at odds with yourself.’ Thoughts on the Church of England.. Those running the Church of England have displayed terrifyingly little self-awareness. Knowing about violent abuse committed over four decades by an acquaintance…

The next Archbishop could revive contemplative practices that encourage self-awareness: something Welby lacked when he portrayed himself as some sort of martyr in the Lords. Centering prayer; Ignatian exercises? Basic self criticism would improve CoE leaders.

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That poem is not exactly full of Christmas cheer, but many people are alone in hospital...

Ordinary Pain

For them, a sweet relief to pull
my curtain, walk away, instruct
a nurse to cleanse and medicate.
Poor souls! In bright expensive shirts;
their ticking watches rest on bone.

Ordinary Pain

My eyes aren’t shrunken nor incontinent.
I see them and I hear them still:
two doctors over there before,
I closed my lids and kept them closed.
I heard them whisper pathways.

Ordinary Pain

Anxiety and fear just ordinary
animal weakness: the cat on Guy
Fawkes night, he cried and pissed our bed.
Prozac to aid me in politeness.
No visitors have come for days.

Ordinary Pain

Mustn’t forget to take those pills.
This tray of food from my school canteen?
No - hospital: the smell of piss and pain.
Morphine for sleep dear Lord, protect
us from the perils of this night.

It's a great pleasure to welcome Rebecca Klassen with her story The Call Home, out tomorrow #shortstory #fiction #writingcommunity

Flanagan's new book weaves strange narratives. Szilard - using Einstein as a 'mailbox' - warns Roosevelt the Nazis are developing an atom bomb. The writer's dying grandmother foresees another death in the family. History and memoir revolve around the invention of The Bomb: dirge-like and hypnotic..

Try Rowan Williams' new book on ancient Eastern monastic tradition. Williams' synthesis - for lay readers - shows how practising faith like Desert Mothers and Fathers loosens the hold of a material - materialistic - world. Eastern ideas are more subtle than brittle Western medieval visions of sin.

REVIEW – Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond, by Alice Roberts - Catholic Herald Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond Alice Roberts Simon & Schuster, £22, 352 pages Alice Roberts’s new book is the f nal instalment of a trilogy, which looks at death and buri...

Alice Roberts' new book brings us close to the lives of ordinary medieval people; at times I felt I could almost touch them... catholicherald.co.uk/review-crypt...

REVIEW – Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond, by Alice Roberts - Catholic Herald Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond Alice Roberts Simon & Schuster, £22, 352 pages Alice Roberts’s new book is the f nal instalment of a trilogy, which looks at death and buri...

Greetings Professor Roberts! Your book is fascinating: in moments almost like time travel... I hope you approve of my review for the Catholic Herald. catholicherald.co.uk/review-crypt...
Respectfully, Hannah Glickstein

Nick Cave's new single Wild God lifts you somewhere above the few dark concrete details. The gospel choir do the real work. Possibly Emily Bronte said a similar thing better?
'No coward soul is mine
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...'

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In Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, Tahir Hamut Izgil learns that his people’s “customs and beliefs” will not survive purely because they have been “cherished for a thousand years”. His warning should resonate with any person of faith.
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My old friend Skinny Bill was at his Post Office Christmas do recently...

My recent article explores the potential danger in canonizing Dorothy Day, a complex and exceptional 20th C poverty campaigner, journalist and author, whose life was rarely a cliche of Catholic holiness. catholicherald.co.uk/lets-not-can...

Spattered yarn weaves prettily.

Consciousness of the presence of God seems to be what many people naturally look for in religion; then they discover doctrine. Which can be pretty alienating! Here's a great intro to Christian mysticism: a real life experience of what priests fail to put into words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Lo...