Boris Fishman
Mapped In Recipes, A Savage Landscape Of Jewish Hunger
Boris Fishman brings the fraught role of food in Jewish culture to evocative life in his new memoir “Savage Feast.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Deborah Levy And More Make NYT Notable Books List
The Jewish authors on the list included a finalist for the Man-Booker Prize and the author of a stunning debut novel.
This Isn’t Boris Fishman’s First ‘Rodeo’
Seeking literary inspiration, Russian-Jewish author Boris Fishman looks west twice — to America itself and to Montana where he sets his new novel “Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo.”
Ayelet Tsabari Wins Sami Rohr Prize
Ayelet Tsabari, author of “The Best Place On Earth,” is the winner of the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Several finalists engage with the Russian-Jewish experience.
How the Forger of Brighton Beach Duped The Claims Conference
A Russian writer who fakes Holocaust restitution claims is the main character in a new novel. Yevgeniya Traps finds something a bit too Soviet about the plot.