Fiction
Yankel and Leah (Chapter 3): Learning Torah is Easier Than Dating
Yankel found women inscrutable, yet hated himself for caring so much what was on their minds.
At 102, Epic Novelist Herman Wouk Looks Back On A Life Well Lived
Wouk says his “main task” was to teach history through his novels.
Yankel and Leah (Chapter 2): Awkward First Date
Leah offers to clean the windshield wipers but how would it look having his date doing roadside assistance for him?
Yankel and Leah (Chapter 1)
The first chapter in a new serialized novel about a Yiddish-speaking yeshiva student and his girlfriend in Brooklyn in the 1980s
If 'Downton Abbey' Were Jewish
Set against the backdrop of an English country estate, Natasha Solomons’s new novel tells saga of a Jewish family beset by family conflict, love and grief.
Barack Obama's Favorite Book of 2015 is by a Jewish Author
Barack Obama has weighed in: his favorite book of 2015 is Lauren Groff’s ‘Fates and Furies.’
In Praise of Ethel Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg who, along with her husband Julius, was tried and executed for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to Russia, in one of the celebrated cases in the anti-Communist Red Scare of the 1950s. However recently released grand jury testimony from Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, has cast doubt on her guilt. A new novel by Jillain Kantor joins this conversation with a sympathetic portrait of Ethel as a wife and mother.
Law of Conservation of Sadness — Or, When Einstein Lets You Down
On the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, Sigal Samuel presents a short story about what happens when the famous scientist can no longer be trusted.
Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner, 36, began his writing career as a poet, but his two debut novels, one published in 2011 and the other last year, quickly gained critical acclaim and have both been called “brilliant” and “revolutionary,” among other praise.
The 'Fat Jew' Talks 'Mutant' Millennials and Going to the Strip Club After His Bar Mitzvah
Instagram star and viral provocateur ‘The Fat Jew’ has released his first book. We’ve got a roundup of the best comments and reviews.
