Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinIt’s a great day for Amer­i­ca: not only do we get to ful­fill our civic duty and wear cool stick­ers (and even get free dough­nuts, if you know…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinFirst you hear that Jami Atten­berg, the author of The Mid­dlesteins and Saint Maizie, has a new nov­el in the works, and you think: yes. Then you…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinImage: Edel Rodriguez, from Fas­ci­nat­ing: The Life of Leonard NimoyEach year pro­duces a fresh crop of fic­tion, non­fic­tion, poet­ry, and…

Bec­caNine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilli­gan is about a fam­i­ly of Irish Jews over three gen­er­a­tions, writ­ten by a young writer who became…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinIt’s rare that a children’s book about doing a mitz­vah tugs at adult read­ers’ heart­strings, but a new sto­ry by Michelle Edwards…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinI’ve been haunt­ed by Tom­my Wieringa’s These Are the Names since pick­ing up an advance copy last month. The orig­i­nal edi­tion of the Dutch nov­el…