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Tiburon novelist Leslie K. Barry is the author of "Newark Minutemen."
Posted inBooks

North Bay writer pens tale of Jewish mobsters fighting Nazis… in New Jersey

by Dan Pine October 7, 2020October 14, 2020
From the cover art for "The Tunnel" by A.B. Yehoshua.
Posted inOff the Shelf

New Israeli novels explore the weight of memory

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman September 23, 2020October 14, 2020
Cover art for "All My Mother’s Lovers" (an abstract blue floral pattern with white type) and "Florence Adler Swims Forever" (a watercolor of a woman in a red swimsuit and swimming cap on a beach)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Secrets kept, secrets revealed as the main character dies in two debut novels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 30, 2020July 31, 2020
collage of cover art from "Mourning" by Eduardo Halfon, "We Were the Lucky Ones" by Georgia Hunter, "The Flight Portfolio" but Julie Orringer, and "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron
Posted inYom HaShoah

Why Holocaust fiction is still so popular

by Emily Burack May 1, 2019May 2, 2019
From the cover of "Another Ruth," Rita Kuhn's first novel
Posted inCulture

At 90, first-time Berkeley novelist recalls her mother’s bravery

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn June 20, 2018June 20, 2018
Hilary Zaid's debut novel is called "Paper is White."
Posted inCulture

Bridging queer and Jewish identities in debut novel from East Bay author

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller March 12, 2018March 12, 2018
Author Nathan Englander's new novel is "Dinner at the Center of the Earth." (Photo/Joshua Meier)
Posted inCulture

In Israeli-Palestinian tensions, Englander finds fertile ground for new thriller

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 20, 2017September 20, 2017
cover art of "Waking Lions" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is orange with a woman in sillhouette
Posted inBooks, Columns, Culture, Off the Shelf

Three new novels — unusual takes on life in Israel

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman April 7, 2017

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