Books

  Emma Copley Eisenberg’s short stories and essays have been published in most of the places you’d expect to find a literary rising star: McSweeney’s,...

This post has been updated to include information regarding Kenneth D. Wald. The Jewish Book Council announced the winners of the National Jewish Book Awards...

“How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish” Edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert Restless Books “Radical, dangerous and sexy.” This is not the tagline for...

“The Topeka School” Ben Lerner Farrar, Strauss and Giroux Early on in “The Topeka School,” a new novel by Ben Lerner, two Jewish psychologists have a discussion...

For someone who called himself the third-best writer in his own family, Stan Hochman left a significant mark in Philadelphia. The longtime Philadelphia Daily News...

‘The Berlin Woman’Alan KaufmanMandel Vilar PressThe Jewish Exponent receives dozens of new fiction books each month, and many hit the discard pile immediately because...

"Live a Little" Howard Jacobson Hogarth There is little that actually happens in the course of Howard Jacobson’s “Live a Little.” For Beryl Dusinberry and Shimi Carmelli, two...

Interested in having the smartest Jewish kid on the block? If so, look into Honeycake for the new reader in your life this Chanukah. Founded...

Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America Debbie Cenziper Hachette Books By the mid-1970s, World War II had been over for three decades. Nazi trials...

Mitch Albom described it as the most personal thing he’s ever written. “Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family”...