Yael van der Wouden’s ​“Into the Mud” is an evoca­tive por­tray­al of friend­ship dur­ing a steamy sum­mer in a town where dyb­buks hide in microwaves and golems can be brought to life.

And just pub­lished by JBC this March, Ali Littman’s ​“Coy­otes” is a nos­tal­gic, exquis­ite­ly poet­ic short sto­ry, fol­low­ing five girls come of age at Jew­ish sum­mer camp in the ear­ly 2000s.

Mag­gie Brown & Oth­ers by Peter Orner

“Orner can poignant­ly describe a life or a rela­tion­ship in two hun­dred words, but if the reader’s atten­tion laps­es for only a sen­tence, that life or rela­tion­ship will have passed by — but maybe that’s par­tial­ly the point: that the sto­ries’ brevi­ty, their few but immense­ly impor­tant details, exem­pli­fies how easy it is for some to not notice the depth of those who exist on the mar­gins of their lives, how effort­less and ill-fat­ed it is to gloss over anoth­er per­son.” ~Ben­jamin Selesnick

Fly Already by Etgar Keret

“Etgar Keret takes you into a par­al­lel plane of real­i­ty that is uncan­ni­ly famil­iar to our own, but pep­pered with whim­si­cal and some­times bleak­ly sci­ence-fic­­tion­al twists and turns, where fathers shapeshift into rab­bits and escape rooms are cloaked anthro­po­log­i­cal tests on humans’ inter­per­son­al rela­tion­ships.” ~Sasha Tamar Strelitz

We Were For­bid­den by Jacque­line Harp­man and trans­lat­ed by Ros Schwartz

“The themes and style of this col­lec­tion will be famil­iar to fans of I Who Have Nev­er Known Men; it explores iso­la­tion in com­mu­ni­ty, the mean­ing of des­o­la­tion, and the pass­ing of time dur­ing moments of pure sur­vival. Harpman’s style in trans­la­tion pro­vides a deep sense of pres­ence and immer­sion, sup­port­ed by a strik­ing, con­sis­tent clar­i­ty and sim­plic­i­ty.” ~Kel­si Parsons

Mar­riage to the Sea: Linked Novel­las by Sarah Stone

“This thought-pro­­vok­ing, lyri­cal work delves deeply into the worlds of cli­mate activism and exper­i­men­tal the­ater, fea­tur­ing heady dis­cus­sions and explo­rations into the nature of con­scious­ness, men­tal ill­ness, Jew­ish obser­vance, and the after­life, with strong influ­ences from Shake­speare, Dante, and Greek mythol­o­gy through­out.” ~Lau­ren Gilbert

Sons and Daugh­ters by Chaim Grade, trans­lat­ed by Rose Waldman

“Grade and his con­tem­po­raries cap­tured a soci­ety that now only exists in sto­ries like this one, sto­ries that engaged with the same ques­tions about Jew­ish life that we wres­tle with today: How can one bal­ance tra­di­tion with a chang­ing world? What are our duties to our elders and ances­tors, and what are our duties to our­selves? Trans­la­tion empha­sizes the ties that bind us — across lan­guage, move­ments, and gen­er­a­tions.” ~Isado­ra Kianovsky