Cynthia Ozick is an acclaimed American novelist, essayist, and short story writer known for works such as 'The Shawl' and 'Heir to the Glimmering World.' A recipient of numerous literary honors, including the PEN/Malamud Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, she has been a prominent voice in American letters for decades. She contributed an essay on terrorism to The Weekly Standard in 2015.
On a New Yorker panel nearly a dozen years ago, in the wake of the publication of his novel Snow, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk set forth an emphatic credo. "Our moral duty," he said, "is to pay attention to the humanity of everybody." And since the subject of the panel was "Literature and Politics,"…