The avant-garde Jewish lesbian essayist was a forerunner of petty 1990s observational comedy. But she is also something deeper.
Nearly 20 years after the great Jewish and American novelist’s death, we have never been more in need of his thirst for life
Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, Etgar Keret, Jonathan Safran Foer, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Meir Shalev, Ayelet Waldman, Nicole Krauss, and Bernard-Henri Lévy
The Tablet contributor’s new memoir hits the shelves on Tuesday
In an interview, Rivka Galchen—who has a new collection out this week—channels Kafka, posing complex questions to herself, and us
Tablet Original Fiction: When a man of science loves a woman of God, what lies between them?
Michael Chabon’s new novel Telegraph Avenue is typically stylish, but overwritten
Why I published Friderike Burger’s memoir of her service as femme de l’artiste to Stefan Zweig
Writer Clarice Lispector’s exoticism had much to do with her Jewishness; her literary vocabulary did not
In his Bech books, the great novelist of American WASPdom parsed the allure and otherness of Jewish writers
Lost Books
Faced with a story I wanted to start but felt certain I couldn’t, I turned to the literary gods. Now Harold Bloom owes me $213.27.
A case for Walter Mosley’s inclusion in the American Jewish literary canon
A novelist reflects on what it means to be a Jewish writer
Truman Capote spread fears of a literary cabal. So what to make of his forgotten first novel?
