The Prague Cemetery
In a new novel, 19th-century Europe is a land of ominous mystery, and a Parisian junk shop is the passage to a lost world. An excerpt.
Children’s Books
Elie Wiesel’s Night and Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird established the child’s perspective as a useful lens for confronting the Holocaust
Jerusalem Stone
Robert Stone’s 1998 novel Damascus Gate sets spies, cultists, and terrorists loose in the Holy Land
Only Connect
In Wayne Hoffman’s new novel, Sweet Like Sugar, a young gay man and an older Orthodox rabbi—who believes the Torah forbids homosexuality—find a way to bridge their differences and become friends
Aleksandar Hemon wins PEN fiction award
Bosnian writer subject of a 2008 Nextbook podcast
Re-remembering Yerushalmi
Reflections on a former professor and his posthumous fiction debut
Walter and Edith
Some people love taking cruises. The retired couple in this short story, by Miami fiction writer Jeremy Glazer, enjoys watching them go by.
End of the World
Novelists Gary Shteyngart and Joshua Cohen discuss their dark visions of the future




