The Last of the Light by Alexander Shalom Joseph
One Wednesday evening, the governments of the world send out a mass text message announcing that the world will end in one month. In the thirty days leading up to the last day of...
Category: New Books
Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir by Seth Lorinczi
When a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist offers him MDMA, the author learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get. Like many children of immigrants, Seth Lorinczi knew...
Schlepping Across The Nile: Collected Stories by Aaron Zevy
In the footsteps of Andre Aciman’s Out of Egypt, and Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy’s Schlepping Across the Nile: a collection of vignettes, memoirs and stories, culled...
Between the Bridge and the Barricade by Iris Idelson-Shein
Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times....
(In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting by Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
(IN)SIGHTS is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the challenges of its peaceful resolution, winning praise from across the political spectrum. Itshares co-author Gidi Grinstein’s personal experiences in...
The Snarling Girl and Other Essays by Elisa Albert
In sixteen essays published over the past decade, acclaimed novelist Elisa Albert considers everything from the creative process to reproductive justice, ambition to Ani DiFranco, Judaism to the ethos of punk, all in the...
The Heroes of October 7th: Heroic Stories for Children by Hadassa Ben Ari
The Heroes of October 7th is a project that emerged immediately after the horrific attacks in Israel on Shabbat Simchat Torah, October 7th, 2023. This collection of stories shines light on the indomitable physical and...
Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber
From the author of Reinhardt’s Garden and Saint Sebastian’s Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession. Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his life’s work—a...
The Beech Forest by Marlis Wesseler
Lisa Braun struggles to understand both her own life and the tragic historic events that haunt her in this engaging new novel written in Marlis Wesseler’s characteristically understated, confiding prose. The novel begins with...
Echoes of Elvis: A Journey Through Nostalgia and Rebellion
Thoughts on “All Shook Up” by Enid Langbert How is it possible that a beautiful novel that was written in the first person point of view of a 14-year-old girl and is set in...
