Dr. David Khayat’s The Anticancer Diet is subtitled "Reduce cancer risk through the foods you eat." Both as professor and practicing oncologist, Dr. Khayat’s goal in this book,…

This book is an original for more than one reason. To begin with, it is a first-time English translation of a writer popular in Israel. And that writer,…

In Julia Dahl’s first book, Invisible City, her central character, Rebekah Roberts, was a stringer, a rookie reporter trying to establish a foothold in a New York tabloid.…

On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein. (Simon & Schuster, 553 pp. $32.50) The “eve” in Bernard Wasserstein’s study

In Paradise: A Novel by Peter Matthiessen. (Riverhead Books, 272 pp. $16 paper) Three weeks after 86-year-old Peter Matthiessen died on April 5, 2014, what he

The Bridal Chair: A Novel by Gloria Goldreich. (Sourcebooks Landmark, 496 pp. $14.99 paper) Thirty years ago, the world lost a great artist, Moishe Shagal, better

Jacob Dinezon (1856-1919) was a Yiddish novelist and short-story writer, as famous during his lifetime as Sholom Aleichem. Until now, his work has not appeared in English.

From Ratner's cheese blintzes and Charlotte Rousses to rugelach, egg creams and mandelbrot, sit back and enjoy everyone's favorite memories (and food!) from the Lower East Side of…