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Essay The So-Called Rules of Language, Literature, and Baseball Richard Michelson February 20, 2017
Essay Hiding in Plain Sight: A Private Yet Candid Yiddish Writer Earlier this week Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub wrote about their discovery of Blume Lempel’s transgressive Yiddish fiction, now translated into English as… Ellen Cassedy, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub December 14, 2016
Fiction Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories Blume Lempel; Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans.
Fiction Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward Ezra Glinter
Nonfiction The Bible Doesn’t Say That: 40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings Joel Hoffman
Fiction And So Is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories Yossel Birstein; Margaret Birstein, Hana Infar, and Robert Manaster, trans.