In her new memoir, Rita Gabis tells of unearthing facts about her once-beloved grandfather, the chief of police from 1941 to 1943 under the Gestapo in the Lithuanian…
How do you describe colors to a blind person? Can you convey the shadings, the nuances, the intensities? In The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman asks the reader…
In dense stream of consciousness, protagonist Arthur Landau, a middle-class sociologist, returns home in search of his lost life only to confront a formidable psychological wall between himself…
First-time author Yelena Akhtiorskaya explores the confounding life of émigrés from Russian-speaking Ukraine trying to build new lives in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa.
Set in Crimea, this books relates a story that is simple on its surface but deeply scrutinizes ethical judgments, even though the events transpire in only one day.
A Replacement Life: A Novel by Boris Fishman. (Harper, 336 pp. $25.99) Few authors generate the hosannas that greeted Boris Fishman for his debut novel, A
To exploit people disfigured by birth or disabled by circumstance by putting them on display for thrill seekers seems politically incorrect today, but a century