Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will...
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Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy by Gary Barwin
A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the...
Appreciating self-deprecation; review of “A Horse Walks Into a Bar” by David Grossman
Translator: Jessica Cohen Do you like to be roasted? How about if you are doing the roasting to yourself? How about watching other getting roasted? I don’t, so for me it was rather painful...
Haunting Paris by Mamta Chaudhry
In the summer of 1989, while all of Paris is poised to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Sylvie mourns the loss of her lover, Julien, and is unable to find solace in...
The Art of Leaving: A Memoir by Ayelet Tsabari
This searching collection opens with the death of Ayelet Tsabari’s father when she was just nine years old. His passing left her feeling rootless, devastated, and driven to question her complex identity as an...
Broken Strings by Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer
It’s 2002. In the aftermath of the twin towers — and the death of her beloved grandmother — Shirli Berman is intent on moving forward. The best singer in her junior high, she auditions...
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension...
What Are the Ten Commandments? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Tim Foley, illustrator Not just about Moses, whose origin story leaves open questions, this book looks back at the time when the commandments were written, how the belief in one all-powerful God set the...
Emma Lazarus by Esther Schor
Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable story has remained a mystery until now. Drawing upon a cache of personal letters undiscovered until the 1980s,...
