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Strangers and Cousins

Leah Hager Cohen

Interview

Sontag: A Conversation with Benjamin Moser

Bob Goldfarb

September 23, 2019

A Room Away From the Wolves

Revolutionaries

Fleishman is in Trouble

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Color Me In

Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters

Interview

‘Preachiness Doesn’t Make for Good Fiction’: Dana Czapnik and Sam Graham-Felsen in Conversation

Two debut authors discuss their coming-of-age novels set in the gritty New York and Boston of the nineties.

Sam Graham-Felsen, Dana Czapnik

April 30, 2019

The Falconer

Essay

The Real Gittel of “Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story”

Lesléa Newman

February 25, 2019

Mother Country

Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story

Lesléa Newman; Amy June Bates, illus.

All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah

Emily Jenkins; Paul O. Zelinsky, illus.

Devil’s Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Essay

The History Behind a New York City Subway Beauty Pageant

Susie Orman Schnall

July 16, 2018

The Right Thing to Do at the Time