Ear­li­er this week, Craig Darch wrote about how he became inter­est­ed in writ­ing the Mel Rosen biog­ra­phy. He is the author of From Brook­lyn to the Olympics: The…

Post­ed by Nat BernsteinWhether home­birthing is your steez or not, there’s no deny­ing the delight of this book cover:In the Spir­it of Home­birth: Mod­ern Women, an…

Charles S. Sher­man is the Senior Rab­bi of Tem­ple Adath Yeshu­run, the largest syn­a­gogue in Cen­tral New York. His book, The Bro­ken and the Whole: Dis­cov­er­ing Joy after…

Ear­li­er this week, Mol­ly Antopol wrote about Chaim Potok’s The Cho­sen. Her debut sto­ry col­lec­tion, The UnAmer­i­cans, was pub­lished this week by W. W. Nor­ton…

Ear­li­er this week, Lara Vap­n­yar wrote about how she finds loca­tion inspi­ra­tion for her fic­tion­al char­ac­ters. Her new nov­el, The Scent of Pine (Simon…