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Etgar Keret speaks with Ira Glass
Posted inBooks

In S.F., Israeli writer Etgar Keret unfolds stories about ‘my dead mom’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 4, 2025November 4, 2025

On a bus ride out of Tel Aviv one summer, Israeli writer Etgar Keret told American podcaster Ira Glass a story about his late mother. It was so moving that […]

Author László Krasznahorkai
Posted inBooks

Hungarian writer with hidden Jewish roots wins literature Nobel

by Andrew Lapin October 9, 2025October 14, 2025
Reuven Fenton is an author and New York Post reporter. (Photo/Robert Miller)
Posted inBooks

‘Goyhood’: On the road again — except a lot more Jewish than Jack Kerouac

by Julia M. Klein May 30, 2024May 30, 2024
A screenshot of the viral "Is your fav author a zionist" Google spreadsheet shows some of the reasons that the document's creators deemed writers pro- and anti-Israel. (Screenshot)
Posted inBooks

‘Is your fav author a zionist???’: Viral list reignites antisemitism fears in the literary world

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer May 10, 2024
View of Market Square in Lviv, Ukraine
Posted inCulture

Jewish writers from former Soviet Union watch war with fear and recognition

by Irene Katz Connelly and Forward March 17, 2022
Man wearing mask signs books
Posted inBooks

On book tour, novelist Gary Shteyngart is happy to be out of the house

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten November 12, 2021November 17, 2021
From the cover of "Antiquities" by Cynthia Ozick.
Posted inBooks

Dwell in the past with 2 new books, including Cynthia Ozick’s latest

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 12, 2021June 9, 2021
Philip Roth with Allegra the cat, Manhattan, 1959. (Photo/Courtesy W.W. Norton & Company)
Posted inBooks

Highly anticipated Philip Roth biography delivers the goods

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 31, 2021March 31, 2021
Detail from the cover of “The Slaughterman’s Daughter” by Yaniv Iczkovits.
Posted inBooks

Jewish literature takes a turn toward adventure in two recent novels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 19, 2021March 31, 2021
Author Emma Wolf's novel "Heirs of Yesterday" is in print once more with a new edition.
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Early S.F. author Emma Wolf, ‘mother of American Jewish fiction,’ gets a new reprint 120 years later

by Liz Harris February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

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