This historic lakeshore city in Israel’s north offers numerous delights—to the spiritual sojourner, the spa vacationer and the sun-in-the-fun tourist equally.
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
The Secret Legacy of Biblical Women: Revealing the Divine Feminine by Melinda Ribner. (Self-published, 312 pp. $18 paper) In this startling and passionate book, Melinda
Almost 30 years ago, Simon Schama wrote that “all history tends towards autobiographical confession.” Now Schama ranges across lands and times and languages to confess through his own…
German sociologist and theoretician Theodor Adorno believed that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Brenda Webster, whose previous novels and translations give witness to both her narrative…
The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel by Alice Hoffman. (Scribner, 368 pp. $27.99) Two horrific disasters—the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 1911 that