Joshua Cohen​’s most recent nov­el, Book of Num­bers, will be pub­lished this week by Ran­dom House. He is blog­ging here today for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe…

Ear­li­er this week, Talia Carn­er defined tzedakah and wrote about grow­ing up as a a sev­enth-gen­er­a­tion sabra among the Sec­ond Gen­er­a­tion of Holo­caust…

Ear­li­er this week, Talia Carn­er wrote about grow­ing up as a a sev­enth-gen­er­a­tion sabra among the Sec­ond Gen­er­a­tion of Holo­caust sur­vivors in Israel, there­by…

Talia Carn­er​’s fourth nov­el, Hotel Moscow, was just released by Harper­Collins. It is the sto­ry of an Amer­i­can woman who trav­els to Rus­sia short­ly after the fall of…

Ear­li­er this week, Daniel Tor­day wrote about con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish writ­ers in a world post-Philip Roth and allud­ing to the Torah in the mod­ern nov­el. He is the…

​On Mon­day and Tues­day this week, Let­ty Cot­tin Pogre­bin​shared two passage​s​that did­n’t make it into her just-pub­lished nov­el Sin­gle Jew­ish Male Seek­ing…