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Chick Lit’s Jewish Mother

Starting with 1958’s The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe’s complicated, trashy novels make ideal beach reads

By Rachel Shukert · June 15, 2012
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Daniel Pearl, a Novel

Joshua Henkin’s seductive The World Without You transforms recent headlines into intimate family drama

By Adam Kirsch · June 6, 2012
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The Feminist Marriage Plot

The attacks on domestic bliss in Alix Kates Shulman’s novel Ménage would resonate with Orthodox Jews

By Shoshana Olidort · May 14, 2012
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Haunted by Hitler’s Hangman

The French quasi-novel HHhH, by Laurent Binet, tells the tale of assassinated Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich while wondering whether it need be retold

By Adam Kirsch · May 2, 2012
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I.B. Singer, the Last Demon

In stories written in Poland and the U.S., the modernist master Isaac Bashevis Singer mined folk tales to convey the 20th century’s essential cruelty

By Adam Kirsch · April 18, 2012
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Fantasyland

Michael Chabon may finally score a hit as a screenwriter for Disney’s new sci-fi flick John Carter. But will success in Hollywood ruin his fiction?

By Jacob Silverman · February 14, 2012
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Revealed

A new English-language translation of the short stories of Soviet writer Der Nister, or The Hidden One, brings his enigmatic Yiddish work to light

By Naya Lekht · December 2, 2011
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The Prague Cemetery

In the late Umberto Eco’s 2010 novel, 19th-century Europe is a land of ominous mystery, and a Parisian junk shop is the passage to a lost world. An excerpt.

By Umberto Eco · November 21, 2011
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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

By Adam Kirsch · October 24, 2011
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Jerusalem Stone

Robert Stone’s 1998 novel Damascus Gate sets spies, cultists, and terrorists loose in the Holy Land

By Adam Kirsch · August 16, 2011
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The Scroll

Aleksandar Hemon wins PEN fiction award

Bosnian writer subject of a 2008 Nextbook podcast

By Stephanie Butnick · August 10, 2011
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Re-remembering Yerushalmi

Reflections on a former professor and his posthumous fiction debut

By Miriam Krule · August 9, 2011
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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.

By Vox Tablet · May 9, 2011
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Judy Blume: Still Awesome

And still totally getting you

By Stephanie Butnick · March 31, 2011
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End of the World

Novelists Gary Shteyngart and Joshua Cohen discuss their dark visions of the future

By Vox Tablet · July 27, 2010
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Frozen Rabbi

The Frozen Rabbi: Week 10, Part 5

In our final installment, Bernie tastes both disillusionment and the sublime

By Steve Stern · May 7, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 10, Part 4

Peering from behind a curtain, Bernie sees the rabbi in action

By Steve Stern · May 6, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 10, Part 3

Upon entering the rabbi’s enlightenment center, Bernie is taken aback

By Steve Stern · May 5, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 10, Part 2

Unable to fully master his newfound skills, Bernie visits Rabbi Eliezer at his workplace

By Steve Stern · May 4, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 10, Part 1

Abandoned by his mentor, Bernie falls back on old habits

By Steve Stern · May 3, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 9, Part 5

Overcoming his native skepticism, Mr. Karp accepts the rabbi’s offer

By Steve Stern · April 30, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 9, Part 4

After sensing a business opportunity, the rabbi asks Mr. Karp to be his backer

By Steve Stern · April 29, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 9, Part 3

In his three-day walkabout, the rabbi gets a taste of American excess

By Steve Stern · April 28, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 9, Part 2

When a thief offers Pisgat some contraband beluga, Max senses an opportunity

By Steve Stern · April 27, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 9, Part 1

Sensing an opportunity, Pisgat is slow to release the rabbi

By Steve Stern · April 26, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 8, Part 5

The new Jocheved goes to retrieve the family’s well-chilled heirloom

By Steve Stern · April 23, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 8, Part 4

The handmaiden gives Jocheved a (pretty radical) makeover

By Steve Stern · April 22, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 8, Part 3

Finally on the mend, Jocheved makes her first outing—to her mother’s funeral

By Steve Stern · April 21, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 8, Part 2

When you go, Basha Puah says, be sure to take the rabbi with you

By Steve Stern · April 20, 2010
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The Frozen Rabbi: Week 8, Part 1

On her deathbed, Basha Puah instructs her daughter to head to the Golden Land

By Steve Stern · April 19, 2010
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