Benjamin Markovits is the author of ten novels, including, most recently, Christmas in Austin.
A Jewish kid battles a bloody nose and nipple chafe to make the basketball team
In an excerpt from ‘Christmas in Austin,’ the Essinger family sings ‘O Hanukkah’ at their Texas tree-lighting party
The origins of a writer’s craft, from an academic-island childhood to the self-control gleaned from a Holocaust-surviving grandparent, by the author of the new novel ‘A Weekend in New York’
In an excerpt from the new novel by the London-based writer, going over old stories