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Memories of a ‘Treyf’ Life

In her new memoir, Elissa Altman looks back on a lifetime of food, family, and the contradictions of life as an American Jew

By Judy Bolton-Fasman · September 19, 2016

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‘Ex-Frum’ vs. ‘Datlash:’ Two Very Different Literary Genres

How a Hebrew acronym gives formerly religious Israeli writers more freedom

By Beth Kissileff · February 24, 2014

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Diagnosis Is Not Death

Two new memoirs, Memoir of a Debulked Woman and Fierce Joy, offer inspiring models for coping with illness

By Sara Ivry · June 1, 2012

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Bookends

How serious is our society’s literacy problem? Unless we commit to being serious readers of a shared canon, we might as well stop reading altogether.

By Liel Leibovitz · March 15, 2012

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Up With Pessimism!

David Rakoff makes the case for an un-American approach to living

By Vox Tablet · October 4, 2010

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In the Rearview

Novelist Darin Strauss talks about living with, and atoning for, a terrible car accident

By Vox Tablet · September 8, 2010

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Eat, Pray, Love Your Brother

The Julia Roberts blockbuster—and the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir it’s based on—get the prayer part all wrong

By Marjorie Ingall · August 23, 2010

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Madoff Had Affair With Hadassah CFO

She testified against him

By Marissa Brostoff · August 13, 2009

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Aleph Vet

A glimpse inside the world of Vietnam’s Jewish GIs

By Seth Gitell · February 23, 2009

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Third Life

For Jakov Lind, reinvention was the heart of fiction

By Sasha Weiss · September 3, 2008