Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature

A new novel from the master of wit and death offers solace for the massacre ahead

The rediscovery of Susan Taubes risks trapping her work within the prison of contemporary autofiction

On the passing of the great Czech writer and dissident

In an age of easy antisemitism, the Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s work remains bitter, resentful, and hauntingly pro-Zionist

A new book explores the life and tragic death of Bruno Schulz, the great Polish Jewish magical realist writer and artist murdered by the Nazis

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

The book taking MFA programs by storm preaches ‘separate but equal’ by another name

Youval Shimoni’s novels are dense, difficult, and demanding—and they may be the greatest literature Israel has ever produced

Polish author Szczepan Twardoch’s newly translated gangster novel is a non-Jew’s view of the total absence of Jews—and the haunting effects of that absence on present-day Poland

Building canons is thorny, complicated, messy—and necessary

Appearing in English for the first time, a vignette from Haim Be’er with an introduction by the translator

Kafka wanted his papers burned but they wound up in the hands of Eva Hoffe, placing her in the middle of an international legal battle.