Freed from the dreary, nauseating oppression of Ceausescu’s communist surveillance state, the great Romanian author is thrown back on himself, books, and the Jews
Remembering Mrs. Els Salomon-Prins Bendheim
A highly acclaimed, socially conscious new novel from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah falls flat
Don’t let your iPhones overheat in the sun. Read a book instead.
An exchange of letters
Vince Passaro’s ‘Crazy Sorrow’ passed through the race, class, and gender shitstorms to become the best new novel no one has read yet
Aleksandar Hemon’s new novel is a tedious progressive frog march through the horrors of the 20th century
A new completist edition of Kafka’s diaries lures readers into the Kafkaesque experience of seeing the author dissolve into an auto-fictional scrapheap
Top awards go to Hunting the Truth by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas, and Alice Shalvi’s Never a Native
At the height of the AIDS epidemic, photographer Robert Giard captured a generation of gay and lesbian writers, many of them Jewish
Rachel Kadish’s ‘The Weight of Ink’ wins the inaugural Jewish Fiction Award
Francine Klagsbrun’s Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel takes the the top prize, and David Grossman’s much-heralded A Horse Walks Into a Bar wins the fiction category
Remembering Fred Bass, who shepherded an iconic New York City bookstore to greatness
Iceland’s got the perfect holiday tradition for Jews
Forget Waldman and Chabon and try Castel-Bloom, Feuerman, and Gavron instead
The best-selling novelist, whose latest book was published today, talks ISIS, writing while watching the news, and his famous protagonist, Israeli master spy Gabriel Allon
Haroon Moghul, the author of ‘How To Be a Muslim: An American Story,’ on his influences, struggles, and hopes for his new book
A review of Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin’s new ‘B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary,’ which sometimes feels uninspired and out of touch