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Nonfiction Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible Sara Lippmann Seth Rogoff
Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7 I Won’t Water Down Who I Am: On the Suggestion to Remove My Book Cover’s Star of David Linda Margolin Royal March 10, 2025
Interview Unasked Questions: A Conversation with Mikołaj Grynberg and his English translator, Sean Gasper Bye Madeleine Wulfahrt January 13, 2025
Interview Points of Connection: A Conversation with Tali Rosenblatt Cohen of THE FIVE BOOKS Carol Kaufman December 3, 2024
Essay—From the Journal Writing Styles, Thinking Styles: A Conversation with Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Dani Shapiro, Allegra Goodman, Francisco Goldman, Emily Bowen Cohen, Chloe Benjamin, Max Gross, and Iddo Gefen Becca Kantor November 1, 2024
Essay BookWatch with Zibby Owens — Author, Podcaster, and CEO of Zibby’s Books Zibby Owens September 30, 2024
Interview—From the Journal Anne Frank Before the Diary: A Conversation with Alice Hoffman Simona Zaretsky September 16, 2024
Interview From Generation to Generation, On a Chariot of Fire: A Conversation Between Siona Benjamin and Erica Lyons Isadora Kianovsky September 2, 2024
Interview Disruption and Deliberation: A Conversation with Benjamin Resnick Jaime Herndon September 2, 2024
Recommended Reading Tortured Artists: A Reading List of Characters Caught Between Desire and Duty Sarah Seltzer August 5, 2024
