February 1, 2008 · BUENOS AIRES ISSUE IS HERE!

Habitus 03: Buenos Aires is on sale, so order now.

Some highlights from the new issue: Interviews with composer Osvaldo Golijov and photographer Marcelo Brodsky, fiction from Rodrigo Fresan, Anna Maria Shua, and Marcelo Birmajer, poetry from Alejandra Pizarnik, Tal Nitzan, and Mirta Rosenberg...and a rare interview with Jorge Luis Borges.

An excerpt from our Borges interview is featured in the "Readings" section of Harper's Magazine in April, 2008.

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Upcoming and Recent Events:

Writing from Sarajevo with Habitus
May 19 · 5pm
Northwestern University
McCormick Tribune Auditorium
1870 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

An evening of literature from the Bosnian capital, drawn from the pages of Habitus. Two Chicago-based novelists, Aleksander Hemon and Igor Štiks, will read from their work and discuss their native city with Habitus editor Joshua Ellison.

Aleksandar Hemon is the celebrated author of The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man. Hemon was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2004. His fiction appears regularly in The New Yorker. Igor Štiks is the author of A Castle in Romagna, which received the Slavic Award for Best First Book. His second novel, Elijah’s Chair, received both the Gjalski Award and the Croatian Kiklop Award for the Best Fiction Book of the Year.


An Evening with Arnon Grunberg
April 24 · 7:30PM
The Bronfman Center at NYU
7 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003 | Map

Habitus hosts a reading and conversation with celebrated Dutch novelist and journalist Arnon Grunberg. His controversial new novel, The Jewish Messiah, satirizes everything from Nazism to Zionism––above all, the book is a caustic study of human suffering, memory, and salvation. Grunberg will read from the novel and discuss his work with Habitus editor Joshua Ellison.

“Like Philip Roth, Grunberg is deeply interested in anti-Semitism and the emotional and rhetorical mechanisms of political power; like Salman Rushdie or William Burroughs, he deploys strategic blasphemy with brilliant comedic timing.” -Booklist

“The Jewish Messiah...is exhilarating, bewildering, and throat-clutchingly funny.” -Ruth Franklin



PEN World Voices Festival: Rewriting Family.
April 30 · 7PM
Housing Works Used Book Cafe
126 Crosby Street, NYC 10012 | Map
Copresented by Habitus: A Diaspora Journal and Housing Works Bookstore Café.

Family—that intimate nexus where private and public lives intersect; it’s where our identities are formed, where we have our first experiences of shared history and common fate. In an age of migration and global movement, the family unit has been strained, invigorated, and profoundly changed. Join writers P. F. Thomese, György Dragomán, and Yael Hedaya for a reflection on the role of family in their lives and work, and on the challenges of defining a modern approach to the family experience in literature. Introduced by Habitus editor Joshua Ellison.


Habitus was named "Best New Magazine" of 2007 by Jewschool.com.

Habitus 02: Sarajevo is still available. Read the introduction to the new issue here
and view a gallery of Sarajevo images from Habitus photographers. You can also read the essay "Sarajevo Is..." by acclaimed writer Aleksandar Hemon.

Read all about Habitus in the Forward, the nation's leading Jewish newspaper.

Bookstores can order Habitus through Ubiquity Distributors.