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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.
Essay Translating “Shalhevetyah” Rachel Cantor is the author of the novel A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World. With the publication of her… Rachel Cantor January 25, 2016
Poetry The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin Celia Dropkin; Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, and Samuel Solomon, trans.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God Posted by Nat BernsteinFourteen years after its original publication in English translation, Etgar Keret’s seminal collection of short stories was reissued… Nat Bernstein October 29, 2015
