Frederick Busch feared his novel Invisible Mending would upset readers. He didn’t anticipate his own discomfort.
Moving from translation into fiction, Evan Fallenberg conjures an unlikely romance
Meir Shalev holds forth on pigeons, homeland, and why reading a book is like a blind date
In 1945, Jerzy Andrzejewski’s novel of the Warsaw ghetto enraged Poles and Jews alike. How will it read to audiences today?
In 1938, at the height of U.S. isolationism, Americans devoured Phyllis Bottome’s chronicle of a German-Jewish family’s struggle to survive under the Nazi regime
A novelist brings to life a shameful episode in American history
Tempestuous, cold, and intensely private, Elsa Morante considered herself a genius. Are others finally starting to agree?
A lapsed Methodist becomes best friends with a rabbi
