Archives for January 2022

When it comes to antisemitism, we’ve gone anti-viral.

Helene Wecker’s rich follow-up to her 2013 debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni.

A strangely immersive historical epic that dramatizes the true story of the infamous false messiah Jacob Frank.

Several new books explore the scourge of antisemitism.

It’s been more than three-quarters of a century since World War II ended, but improbable and confounding stories continue to emerge.

Can a high-risk pregnancy, a marriage on the rocks, financial problems and lingering grief for a beloved dead father add up to a riotously funny read?

In this tender, poetic and suspense-filled memoir, Judy Bolton-Fasman examines the gaps in her parents’ pasts, trying to unlock the essential mystery of her life: her father.

Influential food writer Claudia Roden is ‘not nearly finished yet.’