Last year at about this time, the Israeli paper Haaretz let a bunch of literary writers report the news to celebrate Israel’s book week. Well, they’re doing it again, but this time, there’s a flotilla involved.
Authors include Margaret Atwood, Jamaica Kincaid, and David Grossman. There’s even an unfortunately timed op-ed by Milan Kundera about Roman Polanski, but I’m not going to link to that one.
Here’s the whole thing. Newspapers should really do this every time there’s a crisis.