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Nonfiction When You Listen to This Song: On Memory, Loss, and Writing Lola Lafon; Lauren Elkin, trans.
Excerpt Excerpt —When You Listen to This Song: On Memory, Loss, and Writing Lola Lafon, Lauren Elkin November 10, 2025
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
Nonfiction The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck: Psychoanalysis and Religion Paul Marcus
Interview An Unforgettable Love Story: Joseph and Rebecca Bau Simona Zaretsky September 15, 2025
Nonfiction The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today Susanne Paola Antonetta
Interview Reclaiming Jewish Identity and Culture: A Conversation with Sarah Hurwitz Marc Katz September 9, 2025