Coffee and cigarettes: An essay by Etgar Keret
On Israel, family and the value of a good cup of coffee
On Israel, family and the value of a good cup of coffee
Plus, an author's case for a standing cocktail hour
With 'This Bird Has Flown,' Susanna Hoffs, formerly of The Bangles, explores her literary side
The author of 'Slaughterhouse Five' and 'Cat's Cradle' considered himself part of Joseph Heller and Norman Mailer's generation
Santiago Amigorena's novel imagines his grandfather's life in Argentina and the one he left behind in Poland
Our favorite new releases, plus a trip to New York's antiquarian book fair
Antiquities By Cynthia Ozick Knopf, 192 pages, $21.00 Thornton Wilder’s classic play “Our Town” proposes a remarkable idea: That after death, we get to re-experience a single day from our lives — just one perfectly ordinary day. It’s a painful, startling scenario, a striking conclusion to a complicated existence. “I can’t look at everything hard…
Midway through “Evening,” Nessa Rapoport’s second novel, two teenage sisters stand in the bathroom, squabbling. Eve is readying herself for a date with Laurie, an older boy who happens to be a friend of her sister, Tam, and Tam is scolding her: For the steam with which she’s filled their bathroom, the perfume she’s sprayed…