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Fiction Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward Ezra Glinter
Nonfiction The Bible Doesn’t Say That: 40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings Joel Hoffman
Fiction And So Is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories Yossel Birstein; Margaret Birstein, Hana Infar, and Robert Manaster, trans.
Essay Translating “Shalhevetyah” Rachel Cantor is the author of the novel A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World. With the publication of her… Rachel Cantor January 25, 2016
Poetry The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin Celia Dropkin; Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, and Samuel Solomon, trans.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God Posted by Nat BernsteinFourteen years after its original publication in English translation, Etgar Keret’s seminal collection of short stories was reissued… Nat Bernstein October 29, 2015
Essay 7 Surprises in the English Translation of the Torah Earlier this week, Aviya Kushner wrote about the “smashing, positively dashing spectacle” of modern theater performed in Hebrew. She is the author of The Grammar… Aviya Kushner September 10, 2015
Essay ‘My Fair Lady’ in Hebrew? Aviya Kushner is the author of The Grammar of God, a memoir of her Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible. She will be blogging here all week for the Jewish… Aviya Kushner September 8, 2015
Excerpt “If you think Cairo’s any better, my dear, you’re mistaken.” Yitzhak Gormezano Goren August 12, 2015
