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LGBTQ

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Fic­tion
Exile Music
Jen­nifer Steil
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Non­fic­tion
Son­tag: Her Life and Work
Ben­jamin Moser
Essay—From the Journal

Bod­ies, Bor­ders, and Desire

Three new nov­els set in Israel explore Jew­ish – Arab relationships.

Ranen Omer-Sher­man
August 5, 2019
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Fic­tion
You Asked for Perfect
Lau­ra Silverman
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Fic­tion
The Flight Port­fo­lio: A Novel
Julie Orringer
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Non­fic­tion
A Rain­bow Thread: An Anthol­o­gy of Queer Jew­ish Texts from the First Cen­tu­ry to 1969
Noam Sien­na
Interview

Queer Iden­ti­ty in Jew­ish His­to­ry: An Inter­view with Noam Sienna 

An inter­view about an anthol­o­gy explor­ing mar­gin­al­ized voic­es in Jew­ish history

Sacha Lamb
June 11, 2019
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Nir­vana is Here
Aaron Hamburger 
Interview

A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Amy Felt­man and Hilary Zaid

Amy Felt­man, Hilary Zaid
March 26, 2019
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Willa & Hesper
Amy Felt­man
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Paper is White
Hilary Zaid
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Fic­tion
The Spy with the Red Balloon
Kather­ine Locke
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Our Year of Maybe
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Essay

What the Torah Tells Us About God’s Gender

Joy Ladin
October 23, 2018
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Fic­tion
Nev­er Any­one But You: A Novel
Rupert Thomson
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The Part­ing Gift
Evan Fal­l­en­berg
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