Lies, First Person by Gail Hareven
From the Examiner: Lies, First Person, Gail Hareven’s second novel to be translated into English (the eleventh of her thirteen adult books published in Hebrew), which is published today by Open Letter Books, is...
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Salami Jew by Matthew Lippman
Matthew Lippman’s latest collection of poems, SALAMI JEW, is an extended rumination on one man’s relationship with Judaism. In these poems Lippman grapples with and explores the power of being a Jew under the...
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
With his memoir Little Failure, acclaimed novelist Gary Shteyngart brings the reader through his asthmatic childhood in St. Petersburg, Russia and across the ocean as his family immigrates to the United States. We watch...
Sex vs. Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein by John Launer
Why are we familiar with the writings of Freud, Jung, and Piaget, but not those of Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942), who worked closely with each of them in the formative years of their careers? Spielrein’s...
Two Prayers Before Bedtime by Nadine Wojakovski
“She saw her daughter, smaller and smaller until she faded out of view completely” Amsterdam, September 1942. Every day a fight for survival. Terror has gripped the beautiful city of Amsterdam, following the Nazi...
After Birth by Elisa Albert
A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it “birth” and still she can’t locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the...
The Best Place on Earth: Stories by Ayelet Tsabari
Confident, original and humane, the stories in The Best Place on Earth are peopled with characters at the crossroads of nationalities, religions and communities: expatriates, travellers, immigrants and locals. In the powerfully affecting opening...
Grandpa’s Mountain: Letters From a Border Kibbutz in Israel by Arieh Larkey
It was during the euphoric aftermath of Israels victorious Six Day War in 1967, that Yoram (Richie) Friedman uprooted his wife and ten-year-old son from the good life; in the States, to settle on...
The Last Flight of Poxl by Daniel Torday (Book Giveaway)
Poxl West fled the Nazis’ onslaught in Czechoslovakia. He escaped their clutches again in Holland. He pulled Londoners from the Blitz’s rubble. He wooed intoxicating, unconventional beauties. He rained fire on Germany from his...
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit
An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today. Not since Thomas L. Friedman’s groundbreaking From Beirut to...
