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Interview—From the Journal A Queen Esther for the Twentieth Century: A Conversation with John Irving Simona Zaretsky November 3, 2025
Essay Preserving Stories from Hidden Children of the Holocaust Rachelle L. Goldstein November 3, 2025
Fiction The Boy With the Backward Heart: A Memoir of Love, Adoption, and the Search for a Medical Cure Pamela Sampson
Children’s The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival Estelle Nadel, with Bethany Strout; Sammy Savos, illus.
Nonfiction From Mistakes to Miracles: A Jewish Birthmother’s Story of Redemption, Hope, & Healing Lori Prashker-Thomas
Nonfiction American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption Gabrielle Glaser