Post­ed by Natal­ie AflaloWhile Meg Wolitzer’s newest nov­el won’t be out until next spring, the cov­er of Female Per­sua­sion has already sucked me in like some sort…

If I had to sum up this book cov­er in one word, it would be ​“AMEN”: Lewis Glinert’s lin­guis­tic his­to­ry The Sto­ry of Hebrew boasts one of the loveli­est cov­ers of…

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…

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…

Per­haps one of the best reli­gious tra­di­tions I have adopt­ed for myself as an adult is hear­ing the Book of Lamen­ta­tions read at Con­gre­ga­tion Shearith Israel, the…

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinI was so tak­en with the con­tent of Steven Shankman’s Turned Inside Out: Read­ing the Russ­ian Nov­el in Prison I almost failed to notice the book…

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…