Thousands of books are published in the United States each year, but only a little more than 50 are reviewed on the front page of

FICTION Life Goes On: A Novel by Hans Keilson. Translated by Damion Searls. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pp. $15 paper) The Death of the Adversary:

Adam had, for the occasion, bought a new suit. He had wavered between dandyish black, chalk-striped and double-breasted, and a more traditional two-button jacket in

DVDs Mama Doni’s Jewish Holiday Party Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg give kids not only a whopping good time musically and in storytelling but offer

When asked what her favorite book is, Carolyn Starman Hessel evades selecting a current title. “What is the Jewish book that most influenced my life?

Literary giant Philip Roth—a Pulitzer-winning novelist who was Jewish, or a Jewish writer who won a Pulitzer?

Fugitive Colors: A Novel by Lisa Barr. (Arcade, 400 pp. $24.95) The opening epigraphs of Lisa Barr’s debut novel, Fugitive Colors—the first by Paul Klee on

November—Jewish Book Month—provides the opportunity to discover and explore the latest offerings geared to young readers. These newly published works include lighthearted, gaily illustrated picture