The Long Corner by Alexander Maksik
A bold novel about ambition, grief, creativity, beauty, and existential emptiness that retraces the arc of American life and culture in the first decades of the 21st century. It is early 2017 in New...
Category: New Books
Lights in the Night by Chris Barash
Illustrator: Maya Shleifer In this charming picture book for young children, the magic of Shabbat is celebrated through light. As the sun goes down on a Friday evening and darkness descends, different sources of...
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness...
See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
From the author of Today Tonight Tomorrow comes a magical romance in the vein of Groundhog Day about a girl forced to relive her disastrous first day of college—only to discover that her nemesis...
The Button Box by Bridget Hodder
After Jewish fifth-grader Ava and her Muslim best friend Nadeem are called hateful names at school, Ava’s Granny Buena rummages in her closet and pulls out a glittering crystal button box. It’s packed with...
Fighting Back by Jeffrey Weiss, Craig Weiss
Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force Fighting Back is the story of Stan Andrews, an assimilated American Jew and World War II veteran who became one of the first fighter...
Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Editor: David Stromberg Old Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays―most of them previously unpublished in English―by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific...
Frank, Who Liked to Build: The Architecture of Frank Gehry by Deborah Blumenthal
Illustrator: Maria Brzozowska One building looks like it’s been wrapped in tinfoil. Another looks like it’s buried under a pile of paint chips. Frank Gehry has been called “the most important architect of our...
Sitting Shiva by Erin Silver
Illustrator: Michelle Theodore A little girl grieves the loss of her mother, but she can’t grieve alone. When her friends and family arrive at her house to sit shiva, laden with cakes and stories,...
Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein
In his blazing debut novel, Andrew Lipstein blurs the lines of fact and fiction with a thrilling story of fame, fortune, and impossible choices. Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about...
