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Excerpt

The Trop­i­cal Fish That Did­n’t Make the Cut

Ear­li­er this week, Let­ty Cot­tin Pogre­bin wrote about a pas­sage that did­n’t make it into her just-pub­lished nov­el Sin­gle Jew­ish Male Seek­ing Soul Mate. She will…
Let­ty Cot­tin Pogrebin
May 19, 2015
Essay

Israeli Writ­ers Embrac­ing English

by Ranen Omer-Sher­manBooks Dis­cussed in This EssayThe Best Place on Earth: Sto­ries by Ayelet TsabariTalk­ing to the Ene­my by Avn­er MandelmanThe Peo­ple of For­ev­er Are…
Ranen Omer-Sher­man
May 19, 2015
Interview

Inter­view: Jonathan D. Sarna

Lin­coln and the Jews: A His­to­ry by Jonathan D. Sar­na and Ben­jamin Shapell chron­i­cles the extra­or­di­nary rela­tion­ship between Pres­i­dent Abra­ham Lin­coln and…
Elise Coop­er
May 19, 2015
Excerpt

A Glimpse Into the Edit­ing Process: What Did­n’t Make it Into the Book

Let­ty Cot­tin Pogre­bin, a found­ing edi­tor of Ms. mag­a­zine, is the author of eleven books, most recent­ly the just-pub­lished Sin­gle Jew­ish Male Seek­ing Soul Mate.…
Let­ty Cot­tin Pogrebin
May 18, 2015
Essay

Allud­ing to the Torah

Daniel Tor­day​’s novel­la The Sen­su­al­ist won the 2012 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in Out­stand­ing Debut Fic­tion. His debut nov­el, The Last Flight of Poxl West, was…
Daniel Tor­day
May 18, 2015
Essay

Turn­ing a Visu­al Project into a Book

Ear­li­er this week, Ali­na Bli­u­mis wrote about the Amer­i­can-Russ­ian-Jew­ish iden­ti­ty cri­sis and a pho­tog­ra­phy series she shot, along with her part­ner and…
Ali­na Bliumis
May 15, 2015
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