Books

"Last Resort" Andrew Lipstein Farrar, Straus and Giroux At my alma mater Bryn Mawr College — only a mile away from its cousin Haverford College, where both...

Dvora Hacohen’s biography of Hadassah founder Henriette Szold won two honors, including Jewish Book of the Year, from the Jewish Book Council in their annual awards list.

“Tunnels” Rutu Modan Drawn & Quarterly In graphic novelist Rutu Modan’s most recent work “Tunnels,” published on Nov. 2 by Drawn & Quarterly, archaeologist Nili is hardly...

Richard Bank’s pocket watch, given to him by his grandfather and Shoah survivor Ludwig Frank, hasn’t kept time for decades, save for two occasions. The...

Maurice Chorney was one of those Holocaust survivors who never really talked about his experience. But when his daughter, Helene Shipon, was moving Chorney from...

“Our Country Friends” Makes Pandemic Palatable “Our Country Friends” Gary Shteyngart Penguin Random House For Gary Shteyngart, who wrote about the painful adult consequences of his botched circumcision...

The prestigious Booker Prize for fiction has gone to a South African’s novel about a Jewish woman’s dying wish.

“Beautiful Country” Qian Julie Wang Doubleday Books   During Qian Julie Wang’s flights from Shijiazhuang, China, to Beijing to New York City, her mother was hellishly motion sick. The...

By Philissa Kramer Jean Meltzer always knew how “The Matzah Ball,” her first novel, would end. “The rule of romance is that there has to be...

Bestselling author Sally Rooney won’t allow her recently published novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You?” to be published in Hebrew because she supports a cultural boycott of Israel.