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A headshot of Adams, a smiling white woman, with the cover of her book, "The Nesting Dolls."
Posted inBooks

Former San Franciscan recasts Russian Jewish family stories in ‘Nesting Dolls’

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller July 13, 2020July 21, 2020
Victoria Lee's young adult fiction Feverwake series began with 2019's "The Fever King."
Posted inBooks

In Victoria Lee’s prescient YA novels, young people survive pandemic and fascism

Rebecca Landau by Rebecca Landau June 22, 2020July 9, 2021
Two new books by Israeli novelists: "The Liar" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and "And The Bride Closed the Door" by Ronit Matalon.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Two Israeli novelists explore truth and integrity

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman November 13, 2019November 13, 2019
From the cover of "On God's Radar" by Robert Schoen
Posted inBooks

Spiritual wanderlust in new books from Bay Area authors

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 17, 2019September 17, 2019
Author Meg Waite Clayton
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Bay Area novelist brings Kindertransports to life

by Ilana DeBare September 4, 2019September 6, 2019
simple line art of a fish carrying a ladder and smoking a cigarette
Posted inOff the Shelf

No time for summer reading? Short stories are your friend.

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 20, 2019
Detail from the cover of "Bombay Brides," a short story collection by Esther David
Posted inOff the Shelf

New short story collections are dispatches from outposts of Jewish life

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 22, 2019July 25, 2019
Michael David Lukas, author of "The Last Watchman of Old Cairo"
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Oakland author Michael David Lukas wins $100k Jewish literature prize for ‘Watchman of Old Cairo’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 1, 2019May 1, 2019
the title superimposed over a blue-tinted image of a road stretching into the distance at night
Posted inBooks

S.F. author’s short, short stories are long on emotion

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 27, 2018January 9, 2019
Author Nicole Krauss (Photo/Gani Riskin)
Posted inCulture

Jews in flux ponder home, homeland in new Nicole Krauss novel

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 15, 2017September 13, 2017

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