It’s been kind of a top­sy-turvy week, so the image of a quaint sub­ur­ban house ripped from the earth and spun like Dorothy Gale’s twister-borne home feels about right…

Ear­li­er this week, Peter Hayes intro­duced read­ers to the teach­ers named in the ded­i­ca­tion and acknowl­edge­ments to his book Why?: Explain­ing the Holo­caust. Peter is…

If you enjoy dark fic­tion about fam­i­ly rela­tion­ships and decep­tion, keep an eye out for a new nov­el com­ing out this April from best­selling author Randy Susan…

I’m not sure I can express how much I am look­ing for­ward to see­ing Theodore Melfi’s Hid­den Fig­ures this week­end: the incred­i­ble true sto­ry of three black…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinA year and a half after the pass­ing of ​“the reign­ing god­fa­ther of his­tor­i­cal fic­tion,” a new col­lec­tion of fif­teen sto­ries…

Find out what the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil staff is read­ing this month!MimiSaba­ba by Yamin Levy is an inter­est­ing book of two sto­ries, both tak­ing place in Jerusalem, but…