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

Minsk-born Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life, has led several lives on the road to literary success. He has worked as a hiking guide,

Between Friends By Amos Oz. Translated by Sondra Silverston. (Mariner Books, 179 pp. $14.95 paper) The New York Times reported recently on a trend in literary fiction:

The Spoon from Minkowitz: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Landsby Judith Fein. (GlobalAdventure.us, 245 pp. $18.95)   From the time she was a child,

From Irish whiskey at The Dead Rabbit to kosher mixology at The Kosher Institute in Brooklyn.

“The Noir Effect,” a companion exhibit to “Light & Noir” at the Skirball Cultural Center, reinforces the themes of the main exhibit by tracing noir’s

Three exhibits currently on view around the country, from New York to San Francisco to Milwaukee.

Two recent films out of Israel—about women who worked alongside men on one of the first kibbutzim, and about the trauma of 2,000-plus years of exile for Jews.