FICTION 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction  by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. (Pantheon, 410 pp. $27.95) 36 Arguments for the Existence of

In her seventh book, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America (Simon & Schuster, 272 pp. $26), Kati Marton provides a chilling, intimate look at

Boston-based writer Debra Cash is well known as an expert on dance; she was a dance critic for the Boston Globe for 17 years. In the following

FICTION Drawing in the Dust: A Novel by Zoe Klein. (Pocket, 360 pp. $25) Despite a bland title, a too-effusive dedication and acknowledgements page, and a

Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter is a novel with two inseparable stories. In 1996, a recent college graduate, not Jewish, looks for a job in

Deceptively simple, elegant prose wrings beauty out of the horrors of the Holocaust in one author’s autobiographical novel of her wartime experiences. Elie Wiesel has

FICTION The Humbling by Philip Roth. (Houghton Mifflin, 160pp. $22) In recent years, Philip Roth has ventured from the large ambition of novels such as American Pastoral (1997)

FICTION Laish  by Aharon Appelfeld. Translated from the Hebrew by Aloma Halter. (Schocken, 231 pp. $23.95) “Good literature,” the Hebrew writer Aharon Appelfeld once told