race & ethnicity

Grow­ing up, Ayelet Tsabari grap­pled with Mizrahi stereo­types — and found inspi­ra­tion in Ofra Haza, Israel’s icon­ic, Yem­i­ni singer.

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